Re: Re: List response time...

Ian Lance Taylor <ian(at)airs(dot)com> writes:

> Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
>
> > 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.

The MTA used for various redhat.com mailing lists is postfix (and
mailman as listmanager)

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