> "Gary D. Duzan" <gary@wheel.tiac.net> writes:
>
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed that it takes forever for messages posted to
> > the NetBSD lists takes forever to get out? 
>
> I wouldn't call it `forever', but it does take a while.  There are
> only 2 ways to fix this:
>
> 1) Get a better mailer.  Unfortunately, the only one that has a
> reasonable queueing policy is zmailer, and it's simply too unstable. 
If you're willing to live on the bleeding edge.  Dan Bernstein's 'qmail'
does a pretty good job of handling large mailing lists.  I have
philosophical differences with a few of its design decisions, but
overall it's the closest I've seen to "the right way to do it".  You
can get it by anonymous FTP from koobera.math.uic.edu in
pub/software/qmail-0.75.tar.gz.  Note that it is _significantly_
different from sendmail; be prepared for a bit of a shock. 
I've spent plenty of time inside zmailer, because the BorderWare
Firewall Server uses it.  About once a week we discuss whether it would
be possible to trash it and put in something else.  It's a much worse
memory hog than sendmail, aside from all its other problems. 
> 2) Run more sendmail processes.  Unfortunately, pain *can't* run more
> sendmail processes, because it doesn't have the memory. 
>
> You're welcome to fix either one of these.  B-)
Hmm.  My inclination would be to configure the listening sendmail to
queue everything except local deliveries, and then run maybe 3 other
sendmails processing the queue for outgoing messages. 
- irving -