[Mailman-Developers] mail/news gateway

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:15:35 -0500 (EST) 
bwarsaw  <bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us> wrote:

>>>>>> "GM" == Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu> writes:

GM> But it happened quite often that mailman couldn't connect to
GM> port 25 because sendmail wasn't accepting connections due to
GM> high load (loads above 25 are usual on this machine...), so
GM> queueing was needed anyway...

> One possible solution is to use a better MTA (i.e. not sendmail).
> Also, it's very possible that all that extra load was /caused/ by
> Mailman 1.1's queuing system.

I potentially have the same problem -- the system occassionally gets
very high load spikes, NOT due to MailMan, and Exim is configured to
refuse connections when load gets too high.

> Some form of queuing may still be necessary...

If the new system also allows mail to be delivered to the local MTA
by handingit off to a sendmail executable, there should be little to 
no problem.  I forget the new design tho.

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