[Mimedefang] action_notify

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 27 May 2003 Karel.DeBruyne at ua.ac.be wrote:

> Why don't you use Net::SMTP instead of sendmail to deliver the mails ?

Well, we already know that Sendmail is available, so we might as well
use it.

However, there's a much more important reason not to use Net::SMTP.  If
you use Net::SMTP, then another Sendmail daemon is activated and another
MIMEDefang slave is allocated work.  If you're not careful, this can quickly
bring your system down in a spiralling death trap.  The built-in "send_mail"
function sends mail in *deferred* mode, so you don't get a runaway chain
of MIMEDefang slaves.  You also don't have to deal with your SMTP server
tempfailing the mail because of load or other similar nasty issues.

> (I'm sure you've got a good reason for doing it with sendmail)

Yup. :-)

Regards,

David.