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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 23 Dec 1996 18:33:23 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <59mj9j$6a3@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <1996Dec2000.07.45.5990@koobera.math.uic.edu> <slrn5brnga.4fs.jon@black.oaktree.co.uk> <1996Dec2302.43.17.4992@koobera.math.uic.edu> <59m8q0$meq@Mercury.mcs.net> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:35523 comp.mail.smail:2767 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33013 In <59m8q0$meq@Mercury.mcs.net>, les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) writes: >OK, is the thing Microsoft sold as a gateway between MSmail and SMTP >real also? I don't have one, but I understand there are a few >around. Since you used an unusual disfunctional example of a mailer that >could accept 10 messages in parallel but not with multple RCPTs, I suggest >that you locate one of these puppies and see what happens if you hit >it with 10 messages in parallel to round out your experience a bit. > it blows up, as you can imagine. You will have difficulty locating one on the internet, as most people place them behind a real live Unix machine to protect them. At our site, i put a lamp timer (the thing that you plug your lights into to make them turn on and off so the burglars think your at home) to forceably reboot the mail gateway every 6 hours, this keeps it running about 60% of the time. it's kind of hard on the PC though.