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- From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.mh
- Subject: Re: Differences invoking sendmail or using socket (localhost,SMTP)
- Date: 18 Dec 92 22:09:29
- Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
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- Message-ID: <VIXIE.92Dec18220929@cognition.pa.dec.com>
- References: <MRL.92Dec14095012@sun4.uai.com> <VIXIE.92Dec16113711@cognition.pa.dec.com>
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- In-reply-to: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu's message of Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:32:39 GMT
-
- [rickert]
- >If MH connects over the network, and your daemon is not accepting
- >connections - perhaps the load average is too high, or there is some other
- >temporary problem - then there is nothing for MH to connect to. Instead
- >'post' sit in a loop alternately sleeping and retrying. 'post' never
- >informs you that this is happening, so if the system is rebooted before
- >post manages to get through, you are unlikely to realize that the message
- >has not been sent and will never be sent unless manually resend it
- >yourself. However if the message is piped into sendmail it will at least
- >be rapidly queued by the local sendmail, and at worst will be automatically
- >sent on the next queue run. You may be correct about the performance
- >issue, but surely robustness should count over performance.
-
- Since you can list more than one server in MH's config file, I think the
- robustness can be equalled in the configuration I recommended. I _know_
- that it's easier to manage N*100 workstations that don't have a mail queue
- or a sendmail.cf than N*100 "minimal sendmail configurations".
- --
- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab
- Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
- <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find
- <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me
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