[Mailman-Users] Sendmail

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at xcski.com
Mon May 1 16:36:16 CEST 2000


Quoting Webmaster (webmaster at virtualbungalow.com):
> added another 256 in there it would choke with only 64,so i had to bring the
> open connection option  (num_spawns ) down to 1 but it would take forever so
> what sould the setting be for my profile running sendmail the default was 5
> should i put it at 5? i have pretty large mailing lists 20,000 members
> range.

A list that big should *not* be using sendmail.  It's just too damn slow.
Switch to postfix, emin, or even (god help us) qmail.

-- 
Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com>, not speaking for anybody
" Those are my principles.  If you don't like them I have others. "
                                   - Groucho Marx




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