[51326] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: mail delivery time on nanog-l (was Re: Die thread,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Fri Aug 23 09:04:42 2002
In-Reply-To: <FMELKIGJMCKDEONBJEDGGEFFDPAA.jimpop@rocketship.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:45:16 +0200
To: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop@rocketship.com>,
"Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 2:01 AM -0400 2002/08/23, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> IMHO, I know of no out-of-the-box MTA that defaults to handle mailinglist
> loads.
I've been specializing in e-mail system administration for about
ten years, and doing large systems & performance tuning of e-mail
systems for about six. I can tell you from personal experience that
Postfix is better at handling them out-of-the-box than any other I
know of.
> The trick to speedy turnaround is in the MTA
> configuration.
Indeed. Hence my references to the two main papers published so
far on this topic, one by Rob Kolstand and one by Strata Chalup.
> This is chiefly achieved by using multiple queues, as well
> as severely reducing the timeouts such that email being sent to
> unreachable/overloaded mailhosts are quickly moved to the bottom of the
> delivery stack.
These are some of the standard techniques, yes.
--
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