On Oct 29, 2003, at 9:08 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
Bryan Costales and Eric Allman had this debate at InfoBeat/Mercury Mail. Bryan said that he could write a better "simple" MTA that could handle the easy 80% and leave the hard 20% to sendmail.
There is no such thing as a simple MTA. This gets hairy quickly. Really quickly.
you are much better off spending money on a good fast disk RAID (since the chances that you'll win the lottery are on par with the chances that your bottleneck is NOT disk I/O in mail sending) than on a programmer to try to build fast MTAs.
that none of the original Internet Mail Operations team members are left at AOL (almost all bugged out when the new mail server software came online), and I don't think any of the original Internet Mail Development team members are left, either.
And boy, does it show.