Re: [cobalt-developers] Replacing sendmail

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:58:32AM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> "Robert G. Fisher" wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:49:19PM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> > > One of my clients is overloading sendmail big time with large (fully
> > > opt-in) mailings (they're a Hollywood movie studio).
> > 
> > How are they maxing it out?
> 
> I'll append a copy of the post to mailhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx to the end of
> this post.
> 
> > Sending lots of individual messages?
> > a lot of the same messages?
> 
> They're running SubscribeMe, which is a (non-open-source) mailing list
> package.
> 
> > Would it be more helpful if they
> > were using a mailing list?
> 
> They are.  But it shouldn't really matter.  All mail list programs I
> know of (including majordomo and subscribeme) use sendmail.

I had changed majardomo 1.94.5 to use bulk_mailer instead of sendmail
for a time to help distribute the load.  Most mailing lists are
configurable in which mailer they use.  MJ2 should have finer tuned
load balancing controls -- does subscribme have a limit on how many
addresses it will put in an envelope or can it do sorting based on
domains?  

Generally rejects tend to happen based more on MaxDaemonChildren
and the ConnectionRateThrottle, there's also an option to determine
how many files you will process in the q.

How does SubscribeMe work, does it connect to the SMTP port or
does it call sendmail from the command line.

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Robert G. Fisher		     NEOCOM Microspecialists Inc. 
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