From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 9 17:35:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA25422 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:35:09 -0800 Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA25415 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:35:07 -0800 Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <677>; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:42:21 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 17:42:08 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Bill Allison cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sendmail question In-Reply-To: <199502092355.OAA00377@ifc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Feb 1995, Bill Allison wrote: > I have been asked by the powers that be in our company to set up a broadcast > email system so that we can send info to our business clients QUICKLY. > > About 500-1,000 recipients, and the email being on average 50K. I have set > up an alias file and everything is great (we haven't sent anything yet, tho > ;-) except that the boss wants this stuff to be in all the mailboxes 1-2 > hours after the messages are first sent. I am not worried about bandwidth > (we have 56K, soon T1), but I am concerned w/ Sendmail. > > Under FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, on a 90MHz pentium, I have no idea: > --how much memory I will need > --how I can optimize sendmail to send stuff the quickest possible way. Ever heard of Zmailer? Tom