Re: [Exim] Very large mailing lists (Exim vs Isocor)

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> dcinege@??? said:
> > I'm doing analysis for a client that's business is mailing out to
> > large mailing lists. Sometimes the amount of the recipients exceeds 1
> > million, and many times the body text is unique for each recipient.
>
> Exim would probably handle this, but for these characteristics I would
> wonder about using qmail or postfix. The only MTA where I know that
> tests have been done for these delivery profiles is qmail.

Please don't recommend Qmail. It is no longer developed, and no one is
interested in fixing its bugs. I particularly hate its RFC violating
retry behaviour. If Qmail receives a 4xx code on initial connect it
retries without any delay until it doesn't get a 4xx! Some would call
that a DoS...

Tom