I've got a Mailman mailing list that contains 14,000 subscribers, on a Linux box that's using sendmail has the delivery agent that sends all of the messages to one mail host, because all 14,000 subscribers have an email account on our mail server. This Linux box is only used to deliver our Mailman mailing to our Mail server which is a HPUX 11 server, using sendmail as the routing agent.
We sent a message to the 14,000 recipient mailing list the other day and it put the load on our Unix Box that contains our mail server to the roof How can I setup sendmail or Mailman to not kill the system so hard when I send to this mailing list, can I change something in sendmail to maybe pause or queue delivery, after a certain number of messages that have been delivered and keep that sequence happening, or deliver 15 at a time and then pause 40 seconds or something, to cause better performance. I know that when I send to the mailing list, in our server logs sendmail creates a envelope of 21 recipients, is this the problem? It's not real critical that these messages when sent to the mailing list are received right away, so having a pause or delay between messages is not a problem. I've not done much configuration changes to sendmail or Mailman so, I would appreciate any help that would allow this delivery to allow better performance. -- ######################################### Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
