On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:57:55 -0500 (EST)
John R Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Our goal is to send the same message (32kb) to all users in less
>> than an hour. We install to do this "bulk_mailer" to improve
>> performance and management of majordomo.
> If you're sending lots of copies of the the same message, the MTA
> is the performance bottleneck, not the MLM.
ObNote: As confirmed by Wietse Venema, of the factors within a
SysAdm's control, MTA's are disk IO bound.
> I'd suggest switching to qmail, which pumps out mailing list mail
> a lot faster than sendmail does.
Given QMail's odd licensing status I'd recommend Postfix or Exim in
preference to QMail.
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