Subject: Re: Sendmail and licensing
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 05/29/1998 11:49:56
On Fri, 29 May 1998 11:55:11 -0700
Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com> wrote:
> > "VMailer is Wietse Venema's attempt to provide an alternative to
> > sendmail that is fast, reliable, and hopefully secure, and that can be
> > freely redistributed in source or binary form, with or without
> > modifications."
>
> Unfortunately, he optimized the wrong thing, so while in theory it's
> faster than sendmail, in practice it's not. I don't think this mailer
> is worth bothering with - I don't think it's an improvement over
> sendmail 8.8.
What do you mean "he optimized the wrong thing"?
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