From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 9 16:14:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA23255 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 16:14:28 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA23241 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 16:14:21 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id TAA17848; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 19:11:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 19:11:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Sendmail question To: Bill Allison cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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: > 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. 586 @ 90 Mhz is plenty of processor. 16MB ram will do nicely. i use a 386dx-40 with 16mb to support news, mail, ftp, gopher and more for a dozen users. you can use the default sendmail arguments of FreeBSD (ie -bd -q30m) to send out the mail every thirty minutes. or change -q30m to a smaller number to process the queue faster. a question to you: if the data has to arrive within 1-2 hrs, does you connection to the other sites allow this? if you are passing mail thru a couple of hosts each queuing for up to 30 minutes you may not be able to meet this requirement. i expect to be in seattle later this month. if i can help you out, let me know. jmb Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346