Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:14:50 +0100 From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> To: Jesse <j@lumiere.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailing lists Message-ID: <19990129101450.A24533@skriver.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901282020560.426-100000@leaf.lumiere.net>; from Jesse on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:29:47PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901282020560.426-100000@leaf.lumiere.net>
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You can run it on "toy" hardware if, you drop sendmail, and go for qmail, exim or postfix instead ... /Jesper On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:29:47PM -0800, Jesse wrote: > > Hi, > > The company I work for is going to be hosting some moderately large > mailing lists soon. Right now we're just using majordomo with sendmail on > one of our boxes, but I'm going to be putting together a machine > running FreeBSD-STABLE (3.0) just to handle the mailing lists. The new > list we're looking at adding has around 20,000 subscribers (one way, about > message a day). So, a few questions: > > a) Does anyone have any recommendations on the type of hardware necessary? > I don't expect that much CPU power is needed (we'll be using a PII of some > sort), but I figure lots of RAM, 128M or 256M is a good idea for lots of > sendmail daemons doing simultaneous deliveries. Anything else I need to > really worry about? > > b) Are there any specific kernel settings that would help, beside sraising > the maxusers a bunch? It doesn't seem like anything /too/ stressful should > be going on. A significant number of simultaneous processes and tcp > connections, but nothing massive. > > c) Any tips for speeding up majordomo mailing list deliveries with > sendmail? I've heard bulk_mailer could be very helpful, as it would help > with allowing lots of simultaneous deliveries to different sites while not > having multiple connections to the same remote site. Does anyone have any > experience using bulkmail with majordomo? > > Thanks for your help, > > --- > Jesse <j@lumiere.net> > http://www.lumiere.net/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver (JS4261-RIPE), Network manager Tele Danmark DataNet, IP section (AS3292) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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