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diff --git a/mail/smtpfeed/DESCR b/mail/smtpfeed/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d2e0af3c32e --- /dev/null +++ b/mail/smtpfeed/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +SMTP feed -- SMTP Fast Exploding External Deliverer for Sendmail + +Smtpfeed is a SMTP delivery agent which is called by sendmail, and it +improves required time to complete delivery of copies of a message to +recipients of huge number. + +This delay of delivery by sendmail causes by the fact that implementation +of SMTP delivery routine in sendmail processes all delivery in a series. +By this reason, when it takes long time for delivery to one recipient +which is in a huge list, delivery to following recipients is greatly +influenced. + +To avoid such a problem, delivery agents should be implemented so that +a delivery is not influenced by preceding delivery: DNS query and +SMTP delivery par destination should be processed in parallel. +Smtpfeed is the SMTP delivery agent for sendmail implemented with this +idea. |