At 4:19 PM +0200 1999/10/13, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> That is something qmail has done since the beginning.
With respect to qmail, I have no knowledge of that. I do know
that this feature was available in the first public beta of Postfix.
It was introduced early in the "alpha" stage of Postfix, which from
Wietse would be comparable to the late beta, gamma, or even "release"
stages of software from many other authors.
> I consider qmail and postfix equal, one is stronger
> in one direction whereas the other one is stronger in other aspects.
I am not aware of any advantages that qmail has over Postfix.
However, I am aware of a number of advantages that I believe Postfix
has over qmail. Of course, this is more of that religious issue that
we should only get into on private e-mail.
> I have no intend to "fight" religiously for qmail, the only
> thing I do is pointing out the strong aspects of qmail/ezmlm for
> big lists.
Support for VERPs definitely has its advantages, and I believe
that this has long since been incorporated into Postfix.
Of course, I could be wrong -- it's been a very long time since I
did much of anything with it, and I could be mis-remembering this
feature.
> I would like, but you just said you would (can) not tell me about it...
At the moment, all I can say is that you should keep a very close
eye on the releases of Sendmail Pro. I expect these features to be
incorporated into that code first, then make their way into RFCs, and
be released as part of the freely available version of sendmail
shortly thereafter.
Imagine orders of magnitude levels of reduction in the amount of
traffic that would have to be transmitted to a remote MTA that serves
more than one customer.
In fact, you could have MTAs distributed all around the world
that have their own portion of the world that they serve, with very
small amounts of data (streamed, even) that must be transmitted in
order to serve the set of customers.
--
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