Performance Observations

Test Performed	LDAP Lookup	Mail Delivery
1-user LDAP	<= 2 secs	2 secs
1-user direct	-na-	<= 1 sec
5-user list	< 3 secs	5 secs

Table 2: Sample Sendmail Performances
Test #1 Environment

The 1-user note size 902 bytes, including all SMTP header records and one text line. The second test was sent directly to the same mailbox acquired in the first test from LDAP. The 5-user mailing list was directed to 2 users with mail attributes and 3 users with member attributes in the mailing list LDAP object. The member attributes where subsequently looked up in the LDAP database for their related mail attributes. The mailing list note delivered was 868 bytes in size, including all SMTP header records and one text line. The mail log entry for the mailing list contained extensive debug statements that would not normally be present.