On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:45:56AM -0500, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.
Fetchmail is a pile of crap, because it often loses mail, due to this. It
ignores any error return codes in delivering the message, but happily
deletes it from the pop/imap server anyway.
This is a good reason for NOT using SMTP delivery, IMO.
MBM
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