On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Alexander Koch wrote:
> > and just a little bit faster for those mails with more than one rcpt
!snip!
> I must say that I am wary of implementing too much complication, as I
> have found over the 30 years I've been in this business that it is very
> easy to implement huge and grandiose schemes that actually achieve very
we've been told that our mail relays have been hugely better since
changing from sendmail...
I attribute this to two things:
- much better methods for preventing spam thus keeping it out of the relays
altogether
- exim not supporting 2001 different types of mail systems (uucp etc) and thus
being more streamlined and cleaner
- exim having only features which have been judged useful and genuinely an
improvement.
Software written by the "{mongolian hordes}" (See hackers dictionary) technique
is usually bloated, inefficient and has big holes where the committee of
architects assume its someone else's problem, such as being RFC compliant. A
certain company who makes mail systems for Intel platforms spring to mind
Any program which has a single architect is usually either coherent and solid,
or hopeless and buggy, and Exim falls into the first camp, IMVVHO!
Paul
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