[BlueOnyx:03776] Re: Sendmail concurrency question

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Darrell D. Mobley wrote:
>> Question: is there a way he can adjust the concurrency so that Sendmail
>> will send larger batches of messages at once, and not pipe them all out
>> one by one?
> 
> Chris, I don't know if this is doable on Mailman, but what I do to speed up
> Majordomo is to sort the subscriber list to put all the domains in
> alphabetic order.  I use this script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> dd if=/usr/local/majordomo/sites/siteX/lists/listname
> of=/usr/local/majordomo/sites/siteX/lists/listname.sort conv=lcase
> sort -k2 -t @ < /usr/local/majordomo/sites/siteX/lists/listname.sort >
> /usr/local/majordomo/sites/siteX/lists/listname
> 
> That way, when sendmail connects to say, Gmail, it delivers all of the Gmail
> emails in one connection rather than one at a time.

That's a neat workaround, Darrell.   Maybe I'll suggest that as a 
potential solution.   I suppose that could be run in a cron as well so 
that as new subscribers are added to the list it's kept current.

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