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LCA: Lessons from 30 years of SendmailLCA: Lessons from 30 years of SendmailPosted Feb 5, 2011 0:43 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail by dskoll Parent article: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail
Yes. Perl is an order of magnitude slower than C. Furthermore, spam filtering is inherently a harder job than mail routing. Yet, Spamassassin is *still* fast enough! Thus my claim: MTAs don't need to be written in C.
But writing a new MTA from scratch now is pretty pointless, no matter what language it's in.
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LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail Posted Feb 5, 2011 17:13 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] Thus my claim: MTAs don't need to be written in C. That's probably true, 99% of the time. But again, MTA authors tend to worry a lot about performance and tend to write their software to cope with huge amounts of mail. I believe that's the correct approach because even a small site can suddenly get a huge spike in traffic for various reasons (eg, a spammer does a massive joe-job spam run.) You don't really want your email to fall over.
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