On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:26:43 EDT, UB Listserv Administrator <[log in to unmask]>  said:

> 1) From time-to-time, the web interface times out for owners when the
> machine has much mail to process or too many people are trying to use wa
> at the same time. Is there anyway to alleviate this problem?

This worked for us, your mileage may vary:

In go.user:

# Enable asynchronous SMTP process
SMTP_FORWARD="listserv.vt.edu"
SMTP_FORWARD_1="2*listserv.vt.edu"

This causes Listserv to fork off 2 asynch processes to actually hand the
mail off to Sendmail, so the main process is ready to process the next
command while the lengthy 'rcpt to/250 OK' loop carries on.

In addition, there's various tuning you can do to speed up Sendmail's
acceptance. Basically, it's usually safe to disable essentially all
sanity checking on the RCPT TO: (no anti-spam-source checks, using
FEATURE(nocanonify), and a few other tricks).  Note however that the
FEATURE(relay_local_from) is *NOT* the right answer, as it does not do
the validity checking that you want in this case....

/Valdis