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Re: procmail delivery once more




On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Matus Uhlar wrote:
> 2. anybody tried to compare speed of mailbox, system /bin/mail, and procmail?

The mailbox method is bound to win on a busy system because it can deliver
mail to multiple mailboxes in one instance.  Avoiding a fork()/exec() is
usually a big win...

-Andy

'91 Miata: "ZIP"          '96 A4 Quattro: "ZOOM"       '84 Yam RZ350: "ZING"