From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3994 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Scott Blachowicz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: External delivery: Pros and cons Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 20:37:26 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199511151538.HAA00082@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: scott@statsci.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144805 28197 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:13:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no, joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA27578 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:37:52 -0800 Original-Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 05:44:04 +0100 Original-Received: by main.statsci.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tFwAL-000r3vC; Wed, 15 Nov 95 20:43 PST Original-To: Brian Edmonds In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Nov 1995 07:38:25 -0800." <199511151538.HAA00082@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3994 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3994 Brian Edmonds wrote: > One con you forgot that used to bother me a lot: when you filter > incoming messages, you end up with one (potentially large: perl) process > per message. The "potentially large" part depends on what happens when your MTA does the delivery. Mailagent, for instance, seems to have a 2 step method - the MTA runs a "filter" program that just puts the message in a queue directory. The potentially large perl process runs as a single process to clear that queue. Of course, I haven't tried many alternatives, so I can't really comment on relative merits...just on my current playthings. :-) Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org