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[John Summerfield]

> Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> > The decrease in lag is staggering; about 20 seconds vs
> > some-minutes-to-some-hours!
> 
> I noticed that too.  It seems that the MTA now used by the mailing list
> server is Postfix rather than sendmail and I have a feeling that this
> may be responsible for the increase in speed.  It might be interesting
> if the performance of sendmail vs Postfix (and perhaps qmail too) could

Highly improbable; if sendmail were that bad, nobody at all would use it. 
However, sendmail is, if not the most-used MTA, then close to it. Plug's 
list is hardly a high-activity one.

Matt's remarks regarding differences between procmail and smartlist, if 
accurate, constitute a much more satisfying explanation: mailing one by 
one could indeed take quite a while.

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Cheers
John Summerfield
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