[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Mon Mar 25 02:34:35 CST 2002


[ On Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 21:17:35 (-0800), David Passmore wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] thoughts on SMTP
>
> Indeed, when you get to several million mailboxes the CPU overhead tends to
> be the computational load of namespace searches,

Hmmmm....  several things here smell like a design flaws....

> coupled with the sheer
> number of transactions per second.

But wait a minute -- what do mailboxes and their transactions have to do
with an SMTP server?  Don't you do LMTP delivery to your many scalable
mailbox servers?

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