From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 10 19:44:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA23275 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 19:44:06 -0800 Received: from zap.zap.qc.ca (ppp.zap.qc.ca [198.168.127.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA23268 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 19:44:02 -0800 Received: (from fortin@localhost) by zap.zap.qc.ca (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA02424; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 22:43:22 -0500 From: Denis Fortin Message-Id: <199502110343.WAA02424@zap.zap.qc.ca> Subject: Re: Sendmail question To: wallison@ifc.com (Bill Allison) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 22:43:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: jmb@kryten.atinc.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502110108.QAA07224@ifc.com> from "Bill Allison" at Feb 10, 95 04:08:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1065 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Also, I have remotely heard of a product called Zmailer. (someone else > responded with "Ever hear of a product called Zmailer") I had heard the > name, but know nothing about it. > > I was mainly worried about sendmail bringing our system to its knees if we > queued 1,000 50K messages at once... How does sendmail handle this? Zmailer is the thing that Rayan Zachariassen (sp?) and others at U of Toronto came up to clear problems with sendmail which was killing their main gateway machine. It is intended to be much lighter than sendmail for machines that have to process tons of mail. You can get it from ai.toronto.edu or something like that. (Note: this above represents my perception of the history of Zmailer; I wasn't there, so I may have misinterpreted some of this) I tried it once, and it seemed excellent, but in the end I didn't use it because it was overkill for our needs. -- Denis Fortin fortin@acm.org DMR Group Inc, (514) 877-3301 These opinions are my own