Yah, I have done that. Decent performance gain. However I still have to use DNS for sendmail itself (don't want an open relay), and I can't run Bind on the box locally so I guess I just have to live with it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Jarrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:41 AM
> To: Bueschel, Eric W RWBAHC DIN-PACS
> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail Performance with mailman
>
>
> At 10:18 AM 5/6/02 -0500, Bueschel, Eric W RWBAHC DIN-PACS wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the answer. By default in Slackware, the
> sendmail queue was running every 15 minutes, so I set it to 2
> minutes. That seems to have sped it up quite a bit. Now if
> I could just solve the DNS problem without running Bind
> locally...........
> >
> >Eric
>
> Didn't see the original problem, but if you're having issues
> with the synchronous dns validation slowing you down, there
> are ways to fix that, if you're willing to monkey with the
> config files. In my .mc file I have
>
> FEATURE(no_default_msa)dnl
>
> Then, later down,
>
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=MTA')dnl
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587,Name=MSA,M=E,Addr=127.0.0.1,Listen=32')dnl
>
>
> Then at the bottom
>
> LOCAL_RULESETS
> SLocal_check_rcpt
> # If it's coming out of port 587, let it through
> R$* $: $&{daemon_port}
> R587 $#OK
>
> SLocal_check_mail
> # If it's coming out of port 587, let it through
> R$* $: $&{daemon_port}
> R587 $#OK
>
>
> Then change your SMTP setting in mailman to talk to 127.0.0.1
> port 587.
>
> That does "live" delivery. If you're willing to accept the
> delay from deferral, you can just start a second daemon on
> the command line:
>
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=defer
> -ODaemonPortOptions=Name=MSA,Port=587,M=E,Addr=127.0.0.1
>
> (Or any other port number you want, really. 587 is just the
> standard MSA port).
>
