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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