Re: [cobalt-users] How can I speed up Sendmail?

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SDD> Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 20:00:15 -0400
SDD> From: Shannon D. Denniston <Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


SDD> I was reading literature from Cobalt that said the RAQ Server
SDD> Appliance could send 1,000,000+ e-mails per day. I don't
SDD> understand why you would say that I need a different type
SDD> of server...

High mail loads will slow down everything else.


SDD> We recently attained a 2,000 e-mail per minute rate by
SDD> bypassing sendmail and having the PHP script connect
SDD> to the SMTP directly. The problem with this though is that
SDD> the SMTP is timing out after 30 seconds. We have searched
SDD> the script, but there is nothing about a timeout variable. Is
SDD> this something that would need to be modified elsewhere on
SDD> the RAQ?

The timeout variable is in the PHP INI file.

	max_execution_time

I'm not sure that you'd want to set that to an insanely high
value, but you can.


SDD> Since the SMTP-connect script that we have keeps resulting
SDD> in a timeout error, do you know of any other scripts that would
SDD> allow us to connect to the RAQ's SMTP directly?

"connect to the RAQ's SMTP directly" is a misnomer.  I believe
you mean a program that directly sends mail without relying on
Sendmail?

In which case, see my original post.  bulk_mailer groups and
sorts mail for Sendmail.  Qmail, Postfix, and Exim are known for
being faster than Sendmail.

Being an install-from-source person, I can't off the top of my
head speak to package availability, but I'd say that Postfix is
probably the easiest to set up.  YMMV.


--
Eddy

Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division
Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national
Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence

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