[Mailman-Users] Number of outgoing connections to open at once?

[Paul Tomblin]

Quoting Jerry Thomas (jerry at scoregroup.com):
> Number of outgoing connections to open at once?
> 
> Can anybody explain how this works? I have a very large distribution list I
> am running and sendmail it balks after 17,000.
> 

If you use an MTA like postfix, qmail or exim, you probably want to set that
to 1.  If you use sendmail, you want to make it a big enough number that you
get some parallelism, but small enough that it still puts all the connections
to the same destination in the same group.

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