[comp.mail.sendmail] Speeding up a mailing list

de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) (02/14/91)

I'm running a mailing list with roughly 200 recipients throughout U.S.
and Europe, primarily.  The system I'm using is a DECsystem 5810
running version 3 Ultrix.  Incoming messages are filtered and resent
using the command:

/usr/lib/sendmail -odb -oep -oi -f decstation-managers-relay@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov decstation-managers-outbound@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov

What happens, apparently, is that a bunch of the messages go out
relatively quickly, but then there's only bursts of activity every
couple of hours.

The last time, the sendmail process went away without removing its
lock file.  What's the best way to recover from this?

Is there anything I can do to speed up the delivery of these messages?

Thanks in advance.

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