Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 21:12:36 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com> Cc: Pete Carah <pete@pelican.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-* mailing lists (Was Re: SUP server down?) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950602211013.15000H-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9506021929.A10571-0100000@kryten.atinc.com>
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On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, -Vince- wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > > i have modified bulk_mailer to work more easily with majordomo > > > and hope to test it tonight. chat will be the guinea pig ;) > > > > > > > Hmmm, what did you change? > > bulk_mailer expects to get clean addresses with no extraneous > material. i added a '-m' flag to strip this material so it can use > majordomo list files directly, if needed. > > added a '-S' to limit the number of sendmail processes (needs testing) > > added a '-N' to limit the number of hosts per envelope (needs testing) > > comments as i figured out what was happening in each function > > comment at the top of all non-trivial functions to doc their behavior > > that's all i remember of the top of my head. > Hmmm, okay, any chance of making the modified one available since your headers don't have that warning line that mines has ;) > > > if this does not cut mail times signifcantly, then let's try > > > other options. bulk_mailer may be all we need. ;) > > > > I thought that was all is needed except maybe more RAM ;) > > well, there are those clammoring for other services as well I know but it will go out faster and won't hog as much of the system resources if you had more RAM ;) Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!
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