[51379] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mail delivery time on nanog-l (was Re: Die thread, DIE!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Haas)
Mon Aug 26 17:13:05 2002
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:12:18 -0400
From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a05111b07b98c0ea1a677@[10.0.1.60]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 06:11:44PM +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 06:11:44PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 9:17 AM -0400 2002/08/23, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Interesting... mail.merit.edu seems to be running Postfix.
>
> Indeed, that was part of my point. They've already made a pretty
> good choice for an MTA to handle mail for the list.
>
> > Did they dumb it down? :)
>
> I doubt it. They've just got a big list, and they may not have
> tuned the installation quite as much as they could have.
As of about a year ago, the major problems were:
The subscriber list is *HUGE*.
It is relatively high volume.
Even running postfix, they need more per-queue tuning than the mailing
list administrator can do amongst her 100's of other jobs (Hi Sue!).
For the most part, things work pretty well.
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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Jeff Haas
NextHop Technologies
