From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 19:10:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23586 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat1262.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.186.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA23576; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:10:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA17711; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:09:59 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:09:59 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Matthew Dillon cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , grog@lemis.com, donegan@quick.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail throughput (was: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required.) In-Reply-To: <199901010242.SAA07866@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > : current has 1411 subscribers. each wonts to get the message > : first! if we do 100 messages a day that's only 141,100 > > What, only 1411? > > The sendmail limitation you are discussing is a basic queueing / DNS > resolver limitation that is relatively easy to solve. Postfix is > almost certainly faster, but it makes no sense to put postfix > in our base distribution just because you have a 1400 user mailing > list and your list software doesn't break them up a little before > starting up sendmail! have to agree there...I run one list that is 9k+ subscribers, through sendmail, and use jbl(?) to break them up into smaller, more manageable and faster to process chunks... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message