Re: qmail vs smail
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system.
> Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep
> on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to
> grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when
> newaliases is run.
>
> Would qmail be a better alternative as a MTA? If it can resolve
> aliases faster it would certainly help. I would prefer not to install
> sendmail unless absolutely necessary. My memories of trying to
> configure sendmail are not pleasant memories.
Well, smail can use a DBM file as an alias file. Take a look at
/etc/smail/directors and the smaildrct(5) manpage.
Adam Klein
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