Re: Slow mail delivery
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 wax_man@bellsouth.net 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
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