Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 18:31:13 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: dumb Q. on sendmail Message-ID: <199504211631.SAA25436@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Quick dumb question ;-) I log in about every day via slip, & sendmail flushes my outgoing mail spool, (the line gets cut by the IP provider after 20 mins (shortage of lines), I don't pay, so I don't complain :-) Anyway .. my outgoing mail stacks up, sendmail build slow end to end temporary virtual circuits across the planet to deliver, this is _slow_, Ideally I'd upload to a fast local internet host, & let it sweat it out after Id hung up, lately I tried: mail foobar%freebsd.org@my-citys-ip-provider-host-name not much luck with that (can't remember why offhand) In the past I used a for loop on the remote-slip host, & invoked sendmail i-i -t there ... thats cludgy, & doesnt interface easily to mail readers etc, Is there some other obvious way I'm missing ? The only other way I can see is repetitive redial after hang up (or pay for hours of commercial IP gateway connect time) & wait while sendmail slowly does it's stuff, & the modem light barely blink PS I've got Ok8 in my sendmail.cf which says "Set connection cache size." Perhaps what I need to do is to up the no. of simultaneous sendmail slave processes to about 20 (anything else on my machine can wait ;-) PPS I've also set: # load average at which we just queue messages Ox20 # load average at which we refuse connections OX20 Julian S
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