Re: qmail vs smail

1998-01-27 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to grind to a halt.

Re: qmail vs smail

1998-01-27 Thread Craig Sanders
On 26 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: Would qmail be a better alternative as a MTA? If it can resolve aliases faster it would certainly help. I would prefer not to install sendmail unless absolutely necessary. My memories of trying to configure sendmail are not pleasant memories. lots of

dbm files for aliases in smail [was Re: qmail vs smail]

1998-01-27 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep on

qmail vs smail

1998-01-26 Thread Douglas Bates
I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when newaliases is run.