RE: [cobalt-users] RE: Re: How can I speed up Sendmail?

["Paulick, Jim" <jpaulick@xxxxxxx>]

ok... maybe i'm confused here...

there still has to be a program/daemon to accept an smtp connection.....  and if there is something sending to your "smtp" what then is the smtp program.... there still must be some executable running to process this "raw" "smtp" mail..  and what is the name of the executiable?  smtp??


someone mentioned something about telnetting directly to smtp.... well, they are still telnetting into a port that has a program running on it (qmail, sendmail, your choice)  you/they are only bypassing an intermediate mail sending client.

-jim


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Werby [mailto:steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 1:00 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Re: How can I speed up Sendmail?


"Paulick, Jim" <jpaulick@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Part of the problem is that you are saying you have a script that
> connects directly to smtp...  well, sendmail USES smtp.  You
> can't have smtp without a "sendmail"-like program.

Jim, that statement is incorrect.  It is possible, quite easy in fact, to
send email through SMTP directly without using Sendmail or any MTA for that
matter.  Sending to SMTP directly is actually much faster in general than
using an MTA for large mailings.

--
Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/


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