[Mailman-Developers] Huge lists
Nigel Metheringham
Nigel.Metheringham@VData.co.uk
Wed, 24 May 2000 15:52:52 +0100
claw@kanga.nu said:
> Actually on the input side it would be 2M/SMTP_MAX_RCPTS where
> SMTP_MAX_RCPTS defaults to 500. Additionally, Exim (I haven't checked
> Postfix, but I doubt it) does not collapse identical spool entries
> with different RCPT TO lists, so you're still left with the same
> number (checking for identicallity is expensive).
You pedant :-)
Granted although that raises the other issue... Barry mentioned
yesterday that he was putting the dropped SMTP_MAX_RCPTS functionality
back in... but I thought it had deliberately gone on the basis that
mailman was giving the mail delivery job to the MTA and not trying to
second guess it.
If we do split the list, then ideally it should be sorted.... at least
so identical domains go together and maybe more intelligently than
that.... and we're back to trying to second guess the MTA at its own
job.
> I would expect them to have configured their MTA to not attempt
> pre-lookups for messages arriving from MailMan.
I guess that we need a per MTA tuning/configuration document. I pretty
much have that in the exim mailman howto (always willing to take
contributions/comments on that BTW - especially if they suggest
solutions rather than just raising criticisms). Have we got that data
for the other MTAs? Of course we could have comparisons of the
suitabilities of different MTAs if people enjoy a decent flamefest.
Nigel.
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