Re: Sendmail with deliver, procmail, or mailagent?

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net> wrote:
> My primary concern here is that spawning an extra shell process for each
> mail delivery increases mail delivery overhead dramatically.  I'd prefer
> sendmail's current knowledge of what it is delivering to, so it can
> support its features directly.  Thinking about it, I believe deliver and
> procmail need slightly different feature listings for sendmail, which
> would make a generic script even more sub-optimal.

Then don't spawn an extra process.  Shell scripts that execute a single
command can use "exec".

-- 
Raul


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