Author: Derek Broughton Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: FW: Re: [Exim] Exim on a single-user system
Pete Barnwell wrote:
>
> One query -I don't know how this applies to Exim, but I've seen it
> stated with Postfix that submitting via SMTP rather than via sendmail
> command is much faster - anybody know how they compare using Exim?
>
Right. Similarly fetchmail prefers to deliver to port 25 than to
sendmail. I wonder if it's an assumption that the SMTP server is a
standalone daemon and therefore has no startup overhead? Of course, not
necessarily a valid assumption.
