Subject: sendmail options

From: [email-masked] (Mark Crother)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 15:35:16 -0800 (PST)

I have a question concerning the choice of sendmail arguments that PINE
uses.  

For incoming mail, I added -ox4X8 to the normal args which makes 
my sendmail daemon slows down after the load goes to 4 and stops 
taking connections when the load goes to 8.  But this does not effect 
local mail.

Is there anything I can change to PINE's sendmail args so it will 
act differently under heavy load?

What causes my problem is that I have a lot of large email
lists and when mail is sent out via PINE to one of those lists, my load
goes up.  When 3 or 4 people do this at the same time, my load gets
ridiculous. 

If I can do nothing with PINE would listserv software handle the load better?

Thanks for your help.
-- 
Mark Crother [email-masked]       	 California Technology Project(CTP)
Sysadm 	(310)985-9631 	    California Online Resources for Education(CORE)
(800)272-8743(Calif only)   Cal State Univ.       --"I'm a hard CORE user!"

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 16:17:29 -0800 (PST)

The sendmail flags that Pine uses are set in pine/osdep/os-???.h.  The 
default entry is:

	#define SENDMAILFLAGS   "-oi -oem -t"

On one of our big systems that sometimes has over 1000 Pine sessions open 
we finally had to configure a second machine as an SMTP server and set 
the smtp-server variable in /usr/local/lib/pine.conf to point to it.  
This eliminates all of the sendmail calls for messages on other machines 
and about half the calls for local mail.  Let us know if you find any 
exceptional solutions!

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

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From: "Michael J. Corrigan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1994 08:39:10 -0800

-odq
which should cause mail sent with this flag to be queued instead of
being immediately delivered. The mail is then delivered on the
next queue run (-q30m, e.g.). During a queue run queued mail is
processed serially. Serializing delivery smooths out the load.
-mike