On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, ESR wrote:
the most effective way to accomplish this would be to default to delivering
with procmail rather than sendmail -- no more DNS round trip on each
message
[...]
Debian will not follow that default. It would produce an unacceptable
dependency on procmail. I'd have 200 people on my doorstep claiming for my
liver if I added such a dependency (I use procmail myself, btw).
I just found something worse. I was reviewing the story of Debian bug
#95659, and that sig_dfl handler that has a bad tie to pclose
and caused a lot of grief when we removed it, just to make sure the new
small change to the signal code was not dangerous.
Well, fetchmail still has a (serious) resource starvation problem when
delivering to a MDA and using plugins/plugouts, hasn't it? I would
recommend against setting MDA deliveries as the default until that issue is
fixed.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh