From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 10:52:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.moted.org (reynard.midwest.net [208.235.2.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9627715D30 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from zippy2 ([207.250.168.20]) by www.moted.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA71522 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:41:53 GMT (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990826124859.007cfe90@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:48:59 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Increasing Sendmail Performance? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Is there an FAQ/site that will provide details in increasing the performance of sendmail? Like kernel parameters, maxusers? Mem? Sendmail options? We have a huge mass mailing to our customers and I'd like to be sure the machine can handle the load. Also is it possible to "simulate" the type of load the machine can handle? Something along the lines of directing all outout to /dev/null, but still have the machine do DNS lookups and then dump the messages? I want to do a few dry runs before attempting to send +10,000 e-mails.. :). Or should I be looking at other SMTP servers?? Thanks!!! Jonathan E. Lyons parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! Pager # 7732511967@mobile.att.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message