On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:26:13 -0500 (EST) , Dave Sill writes:
> >I guess my point was this: if you don't do anything
> >fancy, i.e. your box does not do forwarding, rewriting,
> >etc., then setting up a high-volume qmail server is
> >pretty straightforward.
>
> Forwarding is not "fancy" or expensive with qmail.
Forwarding and rewriting in qmail do pretty much
the same thing: deliver to some alias-controlled
account, and then re-inject the message into the
queue. That's the expensive part, because then the
message must go through qmail-send again.
Since re-enqueueing the message involves several
fsync()s, I think any overhead associated with
scanning the message content pales by comparison.
> Rewriting is expensive because it's generally the wrong thing to do.
Well, as I said above, I don't agree on the "expensive"
aspect. Could you elaborate on the wrongess part?
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