I've been running this fine for about a week, and I'm quite comfortable with it. To make mailman access that port, add this to your mm_cfg.py: This sets up a sendmail process listening to the alternate port, in DEFER mode, but set to talk only to the localhost interface, so it's not accessible by anyoneother than your local machine: no open relay problems. Where NNNN is some port number not otherwise used (you can test if something's in use by doing "telnet localhost NNNN" – if it's refused, there's no daemon listening) ODaemonPortOptions=Name=MSA,Port=NNNN,M=E,Addr=127.0.0.1 usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=defer \ You can do this without modifying your sendmail files at all. I know that tweaking sendmail.cf files gives many people hives, and so people aren't likely to do it. You'll see a significant increase in your performance by removing the network interactions, even if you're dealing with a DNS server on your local LAN. If you aren't running DNS on that local machine, set up a caching-only name server. If you're running anything less than sendmail 8.11 – upgrade, and spend some time configuring subdirectories to reduce I/O load and contention in the directory structures (QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue/q* where * = at least 5 directories, with appropriate df/qf/xf subdirs). Other comments (taken from the mailing lists):
You may also be interested in Brad's paper "MTA Performance Comparison: sendmail, postfix, & exim on *BSD" (see ).įor papers that are specific to the issue of tuning sendmail for use with mailing lists, read Rob Kolstad's paper "Tuning Sendmail for Large Mailing Lists" (see ), and Strata Chalup's paper "Drinking from the Fire(walls) Hose: Another Approach to Very Large Mailing Lists" (see ). Then there are the slides for the talk by Brad Knowles entitled "Sendmail Performance Tuning for Large Systems" (see ). If you are looking for online resources with regards to this subject, see Nick's slides for his talk entitled "Performance Tuning Sendmail Systems" (see ). If you are interested in this topic, beg, borrow, or steal a copy of Nick Christensen's book "Sendmail Performance Tuning" (see ).
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