[svlug] Fw: MICROSOFT ACQUIRES LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM

[Javilk]

> No, the reason is because of Sendmail. Sendmail processes its queue one
> message at a time. If a site is taking a long time to respond, it holds up
> all the rest of the mail behind it in the queue. With sendmail, the first
> message queued will be the first message sent and it will run  the queue
> one message at a time until it is done.

    Based upon mailings of several hundred notices and newsletters from my
machine, I do not believe that this is quite the way is sounds.  If it
were, I would be unable to run mailing lists from my Linux machine.   Item
on the queue are skipped when they don't respond quickly enough, and the
residuals are eventually either transferred, or returned as undeliverable.

> As much as we all owe sendmail a debt of gratitude, that old workhorse's
> time has come and gone. There are much better mailers out there to choose
> from now.

      Somehow, I don't think so.  But what do I know?  I only attended an
interesting lecture by the creator.

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