From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 12: 4:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B129E152D1 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id AAA18581; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:59:18 +0600 (UDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id AAA01178; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:07:59 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by localhost.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA00860; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:08:48 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.cgu.chel.su: ilia owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:08:48 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine X-Sender: ilia@localhost.cgu.chel.su To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing Sendmail Performance? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990826124859.007cfe90@midwest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try www.sendmail.org, there's everything about sendmail, but I'm afraid there's something FreeBSD-specific. BTW, what are +10000 messages ? ARE YOU GOING TO SEND SPAM ??????????? On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message