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Date:      Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:59:03 -0700
From:      "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com>
To:        "Rob Andrews" <rob@cyberpunkz.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Looking for a sendmail replacement
Message-ID:  <004b01c1448b$b8ea72c0$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010923182807.A5418@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org>

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The only thing I can not get sendmail to do well is parallel delivery.
Version 8.12.0 supports parallel delivery, but no matter how I play with the
parameters, I can not get more than 5 copies running at any given time. I
have a few large mailing lists that I need to speed up.

Here is what I was told to add to my sendmail.mc:

QUEUE_GROUP(`mqueue', `P=/var/spool/mqueue, F=f, r=5, R=20, I=2m')dnl
define(`confFAST_SPLIT', `20')

According to the docs, this should break up the list into smaller envelopes
of five addresses each (which it does) and then run up to 20 parallel copies
of sendmail to deliver them. I usually get 3 to 5 copies at most. I'm
certain it is not a system load issue since I've cranked up the load average
parameters to fairly high values and it does not make any difference.

Thanks,
Kory


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Andrews [mailto:rob@cyberpunkz.org]
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 4:28 PM
> To: Kory Hamzeh
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Looking for a sendmail replacement
> Importance: High
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 03:09:44PM -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a MTA to replace sendmail. My requirements are:
>
> Actually postfix, qmail, and so on are all a pain in the backside
> to configure..
>
> If you need sendmail's funcionality then use sendmail.  My suggestion
> would be however to use webmin to manage it instead if you want
> ease of configuration.
>
> Other than manually building the new config files for sendmail which
> is well documented as well, webmin should be able to help you manage
> most of sendmails functions.
>
> /usr/port/sysutils/webmin
>
> Cheers,


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