Sam writes:
> Are you really saying that it is now necessary to jump through hoops in
> order to support Qmail on the back-end? Why should I figure out anything,
> just for the sake of switching to Qmail? There's no need for me to figure
> out how to make it easy. It's already easy: sendmail takes care of those
> things for me, automatically.
Nonsense. Sendmail makes a "90%" attempt at the job. When it expands
aliases, it eliminates any duplicates it can detect. However, it can
only detect alias expansions on the same host. Once you leave that
host (for example when moving from the department workgroup server and
going to the enterprise server), no attempt is made to suppress
duplicate alias expansions.
Sendmail also makes no attempt to delete duplicates caused by multiple
SMTP deliveries. There is a small but nonzero period of time when a
connection failure must result in a second delivery even though the
first was successful. This is a well-known (although infrequent)
problem which sendmail makes no attempt to solve.
Eliminate-dups solves both of those problems.
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