mea@nic.funet.fi (Matti E Aarnio) (01/31/91)
Archive-name: mail/smtp/zmailer/1991-01-27 Archive: cs.toronto.edu:/pub/zmailer.tar.Z [128.100.3.2] Original-posting-by: mea@nic.funet.fi (Matti E Aarnio) Original-subject: Re: Gnu mailer, will it be smail3? Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <1991Jan6.141111.27129@lth.se> jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) writes: > >Will smail3 be the official gnu-mailer? > >And if so, what plans of the future development are made for smail? Not necessarily. I have been in `alpha team' of Zmailer by Rayan Zahariassen from UofToronto <rayan@cs.toronto.edu> and that effort has created a very good mailer - if you have BSD environment... As I have been told, Smail3 sits also into SysV, but you can't do that to Zmailer, unless your kernel has setreuid() call with same reversible sematics as BSD has. (Or unless you rework Zmailer security mechanisms.) On the other hand, GNU project should create a kernel which can for sure run Zmailer as well (and then I can purge SysV from my 386...) Current version is `pre-release 2.0', it has (at least had in the morning) a couple annyoing behaviours, but no fatal bugs. It is highly portable, keeping in mind SysV limits (SysV R4 may differ ?), configuration system is easily understandable, it is efficient, etc. What more you can ask for ? Available from: CS.TORONTO.EDU: pub/zmailer.tar.Z NORDUnet/EUnet users: NIC.FUNET.FI: pub/unix/mail/zmailer-pre2.0.tar.Z I am using it on day to day basis to drive various mailinglists and other services here at NIC. It handles load gracefully, and recently when I created 700 small mailfiles in single bunch (a bug in my program, was supposed to create one mail of 700 lines...), Zmailer handled them one by one, and not like sendmail by launching 700 processes with respective loads... >Joergen Haegg jh@efd.lth.se postmaster@efd.lth.se >System manager @ efd 046-107492 >Lund Institute of Technology Sweden /Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>