On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:05 PM, nixlists <nixmlists@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 07:55:37PM -0500, nixlists wrote:
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>>> More like does OpenBSD have a similar reliability feature that qmail
>>> does - pertaining to writing messages into the queue?
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> No offense, but I don't think the question was understood. qmail's
> qmail-queue does interesting, and a bit complicated things to deal
> with crashes while a message is being queued.
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> qmail tries to be very careful that a message is on the disk.
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> Does OpenSMTPD do this? The answer could be "yes" or "no". How is that
> nonsensical?

*This* question makes sense.  Your question two messages back, quoted
above ("does OpenBSD have...") is what didn't make sense and sent
Marco spinning into surrealist response.  Perhaps you meant in that
older message to instead say "does OpenSMTPD have..."?

(As for your question: I don't know the answer.  I'm quite comfortable
with sendmail myself** and have other things I'm more interested in
hacking on in OpenBSD so I haven't gotten around to checking OpenSMTPD
over closely and can give neither positive *nor* negative feedback on
its reliability.)


Philip Guenther


** Disclaimer: I've contributed fixes to sendmail and have a
professional relationship with Sendmail, Inc.