> The biggest performance boost is the define(QUEUE_DIR,`/var/spool/mqueue/q*') > statment. This let's sendmail look into /var/spool/mqueue for all directories > (and only directories) that start with a lower case 'q'. > > Being an old admin, I stretched my imagination and just created 10 directories > like 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 > > Restart sendmail and you got 10 queues ready for parallel processing. The mailq > program will verify this for you. > > # mailq > /var/spool/mqueue/q1 is empty > /var/spool/mqueue/q2 is empty > /var/spool/mqueue/q3 is empty > /var/spool/mqueue/q4 is empty > /var/spool/mqueue/q5 is empty > /var/spool/mqueue/q6 is empty > /var/spool/mqueue/q7 is empty > /var/spool/mqueue/q8 is empty > /var/spool/mqueue/q9 is empty > /var/spool/mqueue/q0 is empty > Total Requests: 0 So would doing something like this for Sendmail, running Majordomo, help as well. Or should I just use bulkmailer? ____________________________ Mike Neuharth ADCS Technology Specialist http://www.umn.edu/adcs E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ ____________________________