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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.177.236.3!trojan.neta.com!telesys.tnet.com!not-for-mail From: kreed@tnet.com (Kevin W. Reed) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 11 Dec 1996 20:24:03 -0700 Organization: TeleSys Development Systems (TNET) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <58ntsj$t67@telesys.tnet.com> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <58h6r1$8ik@ezekiel.eunet.ie> <1996Dec1005.15.53.2968@koobera.math.uic.edu> <58mchc$d6o@ezekiel.eunet.ie> <1996Dec1121.15.26.13717@koobera.math.uic.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: telesys.tnet.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:35058 comp.mail.smail:2692 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32431 djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes: >In article <58mchc$d6o@ezekiel.eunet.ie>, Nick Hilliard <nick@eunet.ie> wrote: >> ... at the expense of running 10 extra delivery daemons on your local system >> and using 10x traffic. >What percentage of your mail volume consists of messages with 10 >recipients on the same system? Obviously you have never run a large mailing list. On our systems with Mailing lists on them, a large percentage do. Qmail doesn't support UUCP Bang paths as well which a site that supports those types of connections requires.