Hi .. This has been a problem for myself aswell. I used to run a few mailing lists (500+ people on each) with smartlist and smail. Things worked great and as an email came in it was sent out to the list vary quickly. Since I have upgraded to sendmail 8.8.8-20 i'm almost afraid to start the larger lists back up. After the mail comes in it sits in the /var/spool/mqueue directory for about 5 minutes then can take up to another 10 minutes to forward it to a list of 50 people. I believe it also queues all out-going mail aswell. This is not good. I have been told that there is an option to not queue incoming mail but no-one has been able to tell me what it is and i have not been able to find it in the docs. If anyone can tell me (and obviously a few others) how can we speed up the processing and sending of mail. Opinions of changing from sendmail to smail of qmail are not a solution or option.
Any help to sort this problem is very much needed. -Rob On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm reposting this message since I've never seen my original come > through: > > I'm having problems with mail delivery on my local box. When I d/l my > mail from my isp (using fetchmail), it is taking over 5 minutes > (probably closer to 10) for the mail to get delivered, i.e. for the > machine to say I have new mail, not for it to come down from my isp. > Any ideas on what could be causing this, and how to fix it? > > Thanks, > > Chris