Re: [exim] data-phase efficiency

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] data-phase efficiency
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:

> I don't think mbox[1] delivery is as prevalent as it once were. at our
> site all messages will do at least one SMTP and one LMTP hop, and will
> never be stored in Unix format. mbox will typically be used at smaller
> sites where the performance impact is negligible. it's also obviously
> true that there will never be more than one final delivery, whereas SMTP
> transfers can be plentiful in comparison.


That may or may not be true, but this is an academic discussion as far
as I am concerned, because I can't see any possibility of my changing
the storage format.

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