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Re: MTA's



Hi!

> Date:          Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:01:10 +0200 (IST)
> From:          Ira Abramov <ira@ard.huji.ac.il>

> On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Eli Algranti wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of MTA's how does smail fall into the picture?
> 
> I'll try not to burst laughing because I'll lose my breakfast (and I
> didn't have any)

Be careful with that. Vile can be quite vile.
 
> smail is a very miniture mockery version of sendmail... more suitable for
> localhost delivery than heavy load work as far as I read... every
> slackware I ever installed I always directly switched to sendmail, luckily
> now it was thrown out and replaced by sendmail. This week I'll start
> playing around with Qmail (but I'll have to find the time for that... :-)

... and, is it secure? sendmail hogs about 400k of virtual memory if 
I'm not mistaken, is smail resource consuming as well? would you recomemd it 
for a small network with little traffic and restricted resources?

 Eli Algranti <OR17367@elbit.co.il>

... My other T shirt is an official Linux-IL T shirt.