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Subject: Re: large list (more than 20,000)
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, A Sun Netscape Alliance
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:03:50 -0600
To: mjn <mjn @ umn . edu>
Cc: "Sharon F." <amazon @ one . net>, majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
References: <Pine.SOL.4.20.0012191420580.2426-100000@garnet.tc.umn.edu>

mjn wrote:
> 
> > The main list only has 4 subscribers.  Those 4 subscribers are list1,
> > list2, list3 and list4.
> >
> > So the user file for the main list (mainlist@mydomain.com) is:
> >
> > list1@mydomain.com
> > list2@mydomain.com
> > list3@mydomain.com
> > list4@mydomain.com
> >
> > To make subscribe and unsubscribe easier each list is a certain
> > alphabetical range.  In the footer of each list I put a link to an
> > unsubscribe web page unique to that list.  My client prefers to add
> > each email because they want to screen users so I built an interface
> > for them to subscribe each email addy to the proper list.
> >
> > We've had no problems at all.  The list runs in about 2 hours.
> 
> I would think you could also set up multiple queues in sendmail, couldn't
> you?
> 
> Something like this in your mc:
> define(QUEUE_DIR,`/var/spool/mqueue/q*')
> 
> Then do this:
> # cd /var/spool/mqueue
> # mkdir q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9
> # chown root.mail q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9
> # chmod 755 q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9
> 
> There are some mods you could do to the time waits on the SMTP
> conversation that would likely also speed things up...but I haven't tried
> either of these things.
> 
> Anyone tried something like this?

Keep in mind Mike that those queue (q*) directories are intended to 
be on separate disks and controllers.  As well as mkdir you would
need to use mount.

mount -t (ext2|ufs) /dev/(wd|sd|hd)(1|2|3|4) /var/spool/mqueue/q(1|2|3|4)

Dan Liston



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