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- From: arnold@stat.ncsu.edu (Tim Arnold)
- Subject: sendmail probs? advice please
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.150844.2059@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Department of Statistics, NCSU
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:08:44 GMT
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- I'm worried about a high volume of mail requests--I am running
- a Sun Sparc IPX, SunOS 4.1.3, OW 3, unix listserv, gopher and
- squirrel mail server. I'm using the standard sendmail that came
- on the machine.
-
- My question is: what mta should I be using? If sendmail is a problem,
- why is it a problem?
-
- I will be going public with the machine soon and I want to be
- prepared for a large volume of mail requests. I'm no expert--thats
- why I read the net, to find out what the experts say.
-
- What I'm worries me is the following info from the net:
-
- From the UNIX Email Software Survey FAQ:
- >
- > Scenario 3: Connections to other networks (optionally including
- > SMTP or UUCP), or very high loading.
- >
- > Your best bets are MMDF, PP or zmailer.
- >
- > You can implement other network interfaces with sendmail, but
- > not only will you probably have to roll your own, but sendmail
- > can't cope with high loading very well. Ditto smail 3.
- >
- >
-
- Another person on the net replies to a similar question from me:
- > sendmail doesn't break, but if you have the parameters set wrong, it
- > forks off too many copies at once. the sendmail to use though is the
- > sendmail5.65c off of uxc.cso.uiuc.edu. don't use the junk that comes
- > with your sun.
-
- Any comments welcome. (got to decide soon: thinking of MMDF,
- PP, zmail, and now sendmail5.65).
- --Tim Arnold arnold@stat.ncsu.edu
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