Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:29:47 -0800 (PST) From: Jesse <j@lumiere.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mailing lists Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901282020560.426-100000@leaf.lumiere.net>
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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
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