Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 16:08:49 -0900 From: wallison@ifc.com (Bill Allison) To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.atinc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sendmail question Message-ID: <199502110108.QAA07224@ifc.com>
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> 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. Hmmm... I am no expert here. I was planning to use that invocation of sendmail. When you talk about passing through other hosts, do you mean sites on our network, or intermediary sites that are "out there" on the net, passing mail? I assumed that sendmail attempted to talk to the addressee's machine, and when the connection was established, the data passed to the recipient machine. Am I confused here? Also, I have remotely heard of a product called Zmailer. (someone else responded with "Ever hear of a product called Zmailer") I had heard the name, but know nothing about it. I was mainly worried about sendmail bringing our system to its knees if we queued 1,000 50K messages at once... How does sendmail handle this? Does it go sequentially through an alias :include file, processing messages one at a time, or can it initiate multiple simultaneous connections? > i expect to be in seattle later this month. if i can help you >out, let me know. I definitely will. Thanks for the help. >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 > > > --------------------- William Allison Ian Freed Consulting, Inc. Seattle, WA 98104 Tel: 206.583.8919 FAX: 206.583.8941 http://www.ifc.com/
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