Jeff, On Tuesday October 08, 2002 11:49, Jeff Bearer wrote: > I'm using Mailman to manage several Newsletters, the subscribers can't > submit, they just receive mail. One of the lists is up to nearly 2000 > users and Sendmail takes forever to send the mail. The last e-mail took > 20 hours to complete, and one was sent last night, in 8 hours only > 100-200 mails were sent, currently I forced a mail queue run (sendmail > -v -q) and it's moving faster, but it's still slow, sent about 400 > e-mail's in the past hour. > > My first question is does Sendmail always deliver the mail 1 connection > at a time, or is that only because I ran it by hand? I figure multi > threaded queue processing would help the speed a lot. Are there any > easy tweaks to make with Sendmail?
There are many good tips here as well as things specific to mailing lists. RedHat's defaults are conservative and for general use. http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/TUNING > Second would I benefit from switching to Postfix? How involved is > switching MTA's? Does the Red Had mail switcher program take care of it > all? I'll leave that to someone else. I find sendmail just fine as an MTA. I'm sure you'll get all the postfix, exim and qmail fans going here. ;) -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
