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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 21:12:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu>
To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com>
cc: Pete Carah <pete@pelican.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: freebsd-* mailing lists (Was Re: SUP server down?)
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On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, -Vince- wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> > 
> > > 	i have modified bulk_mailer to work more easily with majordomo 
> > > and hope to test it tonight.  chat will be the guinea pig ;)
> > >
> > 
> > 	Hmmm, what did you change?
> 
> 	bulk_mailer expects to get clean addresses with no extraneous 
> material.  i added a '-m' flag to strip this material so it can use 
> majordomo list files directly, if needed.
> 
> 	added a '-S' to limit the number of sendmail processes (needs testing)
> 
> 	added a '-N' to limit the number of hosts per envelope (needs testing)
> 
> 	comments as i figured out what was happening in each function
> 
> 	comment at the top of all non-trivial functions to doc their behavior
> 
> 	that's all i remember of the top of my head.
>

	Hmmm, okay, any chance of making the modified one available since
your headers don't have that warning line that mines has ;)
 
> > > 	if this does not cut mail times signifcantly, then let's try 
> > > other options.   bulk_mailer may be all we need. ;)
> > 
> > 	I thought that was all is needed except maybe more RAM ;)
> 
> 	well, there are those clammoring for other services as well 

	I know but it will go out faster and won't hog as much of the 
system resources if you had more RAM ;)

Cheers,
-Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95
SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free!