Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>Mailing lists don't scale well to large numbers of subscribers. I see this
>>delay constantly,on multiple lists. The bigger the list gets, the slower the
>>list gets (and the more loaded the server gets, right Marc? :-)).
>>
>
>Note that the postgresql.org mail server is still running sendmail.
>In my personal experience with sources.redhat.com, qmail is a much
>better choice to handle large mailing lists. When we switched from
>sendmail to qmail, mailing list delays dropped from hours, or
>sometimes even days, to seconds.
>
It's all in the configuration. I slam mails around dozens of machines
in seconds using sendmail and I process a lot of mail.
David