Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 15:26:21 -0500 From: Marc Tardif <admin@pcr.ca> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: freebsd mailing list Message-ID: <382F1AEC.4D1522F1@pcr.ca> References: <199911141924.OAA23442@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
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Thanks for the tip, I'm surprised I didn't think of looking at the mailing list header myself. I'm also surprised freebsd is using bulk_mailer. I've read the source and it doesn't seem so efficient, with putc to the smtp stream and using temporary file storage. I've been looking into smtpfeed which would seem to yield a much better performance, though using more memory then bulk_mailer. Nevertheless, most messages on the freebsd mailing list are quite small, so that wouldn't make much difference. Furthermore, smptfeed can be configured to use esmtp for larger messages which can be much more leniant on memory usage. On the other hand, as you pointed out, FreeBSD uses postfix on which smtpfeed would probably not work. I wonder how much of a performance gain postfix can procur, maybe I've been going at it all wrong... I hope I'm wrong about bulk_mailer since the source code will be alot easier for me to play with considering I keep my destination addresses in an sql table rather than a flat text file. Nevertheless, I remain impressed by the potential performance of smtpfeed. Marc Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:27:10 -0500, Marc Tardif wrote: > > >Which programs does freebsd.org use for its mailing list? > >- which mail server > >- which mailing list manager > >- which mail dispatcher for sorting and batching > > For starters you could look at the header for the list messages. > > >>Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) > >>Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); > > The list I believe is majordomo since the list manager address is majordomo@freebsd.org > > Don't know about the search for the list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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