RE: [Exim] Exim Bulk Delivery Optimization?

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Richard Welty
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Subject: RE: [Exim] Exim Bulk Delivery Optimization?
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Richard Welty wrote:

> bulkmail contains nothing that even remotely resembles any sort of
> logging, error recovery, fault tolerance, etc. if a bulkmail process
> crashes, any mail that it hasn't yet delivered goes into the bitbucket.


Agreed. If this is the same tool that is sometimes (though decreasingly)
used with majordomo, I would advise very very strongly against it. I have
seen it lose the DATA but still call /usr/lib/sendmail so that recipients
got some very odd messages, and the information was lost.

-j

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