[imp] WAP ?

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie> wrote:

> > even for those who would trust running sendmail, the real reason would
> > be NOT to FORK a new
> > process everytime you send a mail instead of using a library to do so ...
>
>  So what? Forking is not a big deal on a modern OS. And a modular system
>  like postfix (and possibly qmail) will reuse smtp clients.

There is one other thought to throw into this discussion:  robustness of
delivery.  If you're delivering with SMTP you have to be prepared to
handle the case where you can't get through to the server; this would make
IMP much more complicated, if it were even feasible.  A post I ran across
today:

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:

> You can use a smart relay on the webserver to do nothing but forward
> mail onto your smtp server - this is a _lot_ more reliable than
> connecting directly via PHP, as if the remote smtp server is
> temporarily down, the smart relay can queue mails instead of discarding
> them.  Check out http://em.ca/~bruceg/nullmailer/ which is a very
> stable implementation.

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