[tech] new moray
David Luyer
luyer at zip.com.au
Thu Nov 18 18:17:49 WST 1999
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 05:38:47PM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> I distinctly recall many mail performance issues over the years.
> Don't you remember numerous mailing list problems caused by sendmail,
> the rounds of mailbox corruption,
That's the fault of the delivery agent, not of sendmail. And most likely the
fault of NFS.
> the stupid queueing algorithm
> requiring someone to run sendmail -q evey 10 minutes for any mail to get
> through?
Caused by things like 'hold expensive' and/or using a host status directory
with the timeout set too long. Basically all configuration problems which
your friendly sendmail expert can fix.
Sendmail is the best mail transport agent. I read it on our tech pages. :P
David.
(that better mikolaj?)
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