From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 21:25:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat203.199.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.203.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FF1155FB for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA64957; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:22:40 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:22:40 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Ilia Chipitsine Cc: "Jonathan E. Lyons" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing Sendmail Performance? In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > 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 ??????????? Would make for a small spam list, no? I used to run a newletter mailing list for a client that has 10000+ addresses in it...and just helped a friend setup a list for one of his clients that will be 6000+ ... *shrug* > > 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 > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message