On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 19:05, Eric Miller wrote: > Thank you all for the suggestions and references. > I made some quick changes, especially the > > O Timeout.iconnect=5s > > sendmail option seemed to really help. I'm down to 4 to 10 minutes > with most messages at 6. >
It really helps when you move those slow MTA's to the end of the line, they don't block the messages getting out to the quicker ones. > One question: Should I be looking at a better MTA? Yes. Postfix. For you that would be a fairly easy change. RedHat 9 comes with an MTA changer that will move you over to Postfix automagically. I don't know the effect that will have on Mailman, but I've heard from third-hand sources that it works fine (which I find surprising). > What is the fastest that works with RedHat 9? > (I guess that is two questions...) > > Thanks! > > Eric BTW: I looked at the the other fellows recommend web-sites. This one seemed worth the trip, and a good recommendation for reading (though a bit dated). Most of it was general to any Mail server. http://www.jetcafe.org/npc/doc/performance_tuning.pdf I'm sure you already looked at it though. Take care and good luck - Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org