[svlug] Sendmail like it or not - it works

[George Bonser]

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Rafael Skodlar wrote:

> Seems to me that you don't trust sendmail very much. I wonder why the guys
> started a corporation solely based on Sendmail and as far as I know they
> got some big corporate sponsors behind them? 

It takes a lot of babysitting on busy sites. I was contracting to do
some admin on a large world-wide corporate network. Mail problems are a
major issue there. I am taking about a network where thousands of
emails/hour pass through their main mail gateway. Queue management is a
big deal. They have mail going to every place on earth with internet
connectivity and not all places are reachable all the time. Maybe a router
is down in eastern Europe or a cable problem in Asia. Exim just handles
these situations better. The mail that can get through gets through
without being hindered by mail that can't.


George Bonser

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