On Tue, 25 May 1999, Per Steinar Iversen wrote:
> mailstats is much more terse, it is also very quick as the statistics
> are accumulated by sendmail as it runs.
Exim can't do this, because it does not have a single, central,
co-ordinating process. That is part of the reason why it scales well.
It could, of course, update some file or other, but then there might be
a bottleneck between the Exim processes queueing for access to the file.
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