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Subject: Re: Is this possible with postfix?
From: Ari Gordon-Schlosberg (regsnebcorp.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 13:35:28 CST

[Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org>]
> I have used both models:
>
> 1 - UNIX systems drop all mail to the mail server.
>
> 2 - UNIX systems deliver directly to the internet.
>
> In both cases I was in full control over mail configurations. Each
> model has advantages and disadvantages.
>
> (1) Loads the server more, but gives more control at the server.
>
> (2) If machines are turned off at night and over weekends, then
> mail can stay queued up much longer than expected.

Add to that (2a) if the machine stays up but the sendmail daemon was killed
without being restarted, it make take awhile to notice that no one is
getting your mail. (This happened to me on my workstation at my last
job... needless to say, the admin got an earful after I figured that all my
outgoing mail for a week was sitting in a queue file). 

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Ari							there is no spoon
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