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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux9.cso.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 9 Dec 1996 14:55:16 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 28 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58h98k$96s@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <584aao$5im@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <vusp5k6iy2.fsf@moocow.math.nat.tu-bs.de> <589e5u$35t@stdismas.bogon.com> <589jsm$o2v@ezekiel.eunet.ie> <589s2i$aro@raven.eva.net> <58ffd7$op8@pacer.nlc.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux9.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:34944 comp.mail.smail:2664 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32287 John Saunders (john@pacer.nlc.net.au) wrote: : J.C. Archambeau (jca@bighorn.accessnv.com) wrote: : > Nick Hilliard (nick@eunet.ie) wrote: : : : The one weakness of qmail is header re-writing. It's possible to make it do : it, but you need to supply a program (or script) that makes the actual : change to the message. Qmail simply provides diverting capability so that : the message gets passed via your re-writing program. It's other weakness Probably, one can use sendmail as a "script" been called by qmail ?! :-) : (IMHO) is that when a message has multiple recipients at the same host, : qmail sends each recipient their own message rather than using a single : message for both. The Qmail author says that in practice this scenario is : very rare, also for a link with lots of BW and a slow round trip time it's : faster to send 2 messages at the same time than 1 message with an extra : receipient. It's not true! I've run in a lot of situations when I was sending messages to multiple receipients of the same host. And, even, more than 2! If you don't believe, try to think about mailing lists. IgoR aka StR