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From: dlr@daver.bungi.com (Dave Rand)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: How efficient/fast is uucp?
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.081424.1065@daver.bungi.com>
Date: 27 Aug 90 08:14:24 GMT
References: <VIXIE.90Aug26205245@volition.pa.dec.com> <1990Aug27.052302.28750@daver.bungi.com> <VIXIE.90Aug26233735@volition.pa.dec.com>
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In article <VIXIE.90Aug26233735@volition.pa.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
>The bright side is that we're only forwarding 14,000 messages a day.
>
>There's no way in the world that we could run a different mailer in only
>a few hours.  Given the number of address tweaks we do and the number of
>messages we forward, new mailers need to be run in sidelined test machines
>for N days or weeks before we can put them into production.  I tend to
>hack sendmail.cf "live", but it's a bit like running adb on a running
>kernel -- nobody else around here will try it :-).

And that, friends, is what separates the Real Computers from the toys.
daver.bungi.com only deals with about 4,500 messages per week!

My hat is off (again) to Paul for:

1. Being able to administer such a system.
2. Putting up with people like me that make sweeping assumptions.

Thanks, Paul. (a 700 line sendmail.cf? <shudder>)

What I should have said is that for small sites, getting smail3 running
is very easy. It also ports very easily to System V environments. If you
are in such a catagory, please give smail3 a try.

-- 
Dave Rand
{pyramid|mips|bct|vsi1}!daver!dlr	Internet: dlr@daver.bungi.com