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15 | <B>Andrew Church</B> | |
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19 | <I>Wed Nov 24 11:50:24 PST 2004</I> | |
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34 | <PRE> Another thing that should be mentioned about the sendmail module is | |
35 | that it blocks until the sendmail process exits, which can cause | |
36 | significant problems if your sendmail program does anything other than just | |
37 | queue the message. To be honest, I only wrote the sendmail module as a | |
38 | backup in case the SMTP module couldn't be used for some reason (like a | |
39 | site that doesn't use SMTP for mail). | |
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41 | --Andrew Church | |
42 | <A HREF="http://lists.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">achurch at achurch.org</A> | |
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45 | ><i>Craig Edwards wrote: | |
46 | </I>>><i> i'd recommend using smtp rather than sendmail if you're doing this, so | |
47 | </I>>><i> that your mailer daemon handles mail retries for you. If your own local | |
48 | </I>>><i> mailserver is down this is more of a problem than a remote mailserver | |
49 | </I>>><i> being down and will probably be fixed much faster. | |
50 | </I>><i> | |
51 | </I>><i>Given your explanation, wouldn't it make more sense to use sendmail to | |
52 | </I>><i>submit? The sendmail process would submit it to your local machine's | |
53 | </I>><i>queue, then the MTA on that machine would either send it out or | |
54 | </I>><i>smarthost it, depending on the configuration. And if the remote server | |
55 | </I>><i>or smart host were down, the message would be in the local machine's | |
56 | </I>><i>MTA's queue, per what Andy said. It's better to let your MTA handle | |
57 | </I>><i>queueing of mail since that's specifically what it's designed to do. ;) | |
58 | </I>><i> | |
59 | </I>><i>The only issue I would see with the "sendmail" method is that it may not | |
60 | </I>><i>work with all MTAs. Sendmail, Postfix and Exim probably fare the best | |
61 | </I>><i>at sendmail-style submission. I'm not 100% sure about qmail; I don't | |
62 | </I>><i>use it myself for... various reasons. ;) (Andy will likely concur with | |
63 | </I>><i>me for many of the same reasons.) | |
64 | </I>><i> | |
65 | </I>><i>--Ian R. Justman, Co-Founder and Postmaster, The EsperNet IRC Network. | |
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