[Mailman-Users] Scaling Mailman

Chris Greer cgreer at midsouth.rr.com
Sun Sep 30 01:40:34 CEST 2001


We are currently using sendmail, but are investigating postfix.

Chris G.

Mike Horwath wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:00:32PM -0500, Chris Greer wrote:
> > Right now we are running on Solaris, and for political and financial
> > reasons, that will probably not change in the next year or so.
> 
> Solaris is cool.
> 
> > We are also running our lists on the mail server with users.  We are
> > strongly considering moving the lists to a separate list server.
> 
> I would seperate it off and you should get some gain that way.
> 
> Also, what MTA are you using?
> 
> With Postfix, I can deliver 30K messages pretty damn quick.  When I
> was still using Sendmail and Mailman 1.0 - it would be a few hours.
> 
> Qmail should be almost as fast :)
> 
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