Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 10:51 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find this curious. I have MAX_RCPT_TO set to 5, and to broadcast > 30 messages to a subscriber base of 1,000 (ie 6,000 spool entries) > through qrunner to the MTA (postfix) on a dual PII-333 takes just > over 6 seconds once start

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 10:43 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) If your messages are getting corrupted, AT ALL, you have far more > serious problems than how fast your system is able to deliver a list > broadcast. Yeah. TCP guarantees the data is good. You basically can't get corruption un

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 12 May 2001 20:36:37 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > QRUNNER_LOCK_LIFETIME be longer than however long it takes to > deliver your really large message, or the system will assume the > lock is dead and break it. You don't want it too large, because if > the system does

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 12 May 2001 19:20:21 -0700 (PDT) tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To take another approach, mail out a link to the newsletter rather > than the ENTIRE newsletter to each person. Do the math; if you're > mailing out a letter that's 30k, to 10,000 users. that's gonna be > 300 megs of data

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 7:20 PM, "Tib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To take another approach, mail out a link to the newsletter rather than the > ENTIRE newsletter to each person. Do the math; Your math is wrong, though. > if you're mailing out a letter > that's 30k, to 10,000 users. that's gonna be 300 meg

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 6:52 PM, "Ian White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which variables should be changed? It looks like the following could use > some changes: > SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500 Between 5 and 10 - that should be set for any mailman installation. 500 is way too high for reasonable performance. > MAX_

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Tib
To take another approach, mail out a link to the newsletter rather than the ENTIRE newsletter to each person. Do the math; if you're mailing out a letter that's 30k, to 10,000 users. that's gonna be 300 megs of data that's getting pumped through your system, on a weekly basis, with each one having

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Ian White
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > I ran lists larger than that on majordomo. You can run them on mailman, > also, but with 2.0, you need to set things up properly -- out of the box, > you may well have some problems with mailman and lists of that size. The two > issues are the single

Re: [Mailman-Users] newlist don't make aliases

2001-05-12 Thread Ian White
Try the -o option for newlist. -o file --output=file Append the alias setting recommendations to file, in addition to printing them to standard output. Change file to whatever your aliases file is. Of course the user running newlist needs permission to edit that file. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 2:32 PM, "Eric Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Majordomo seems to be tripping over itself, and many > of my subscribers are not receiving their newsletter. This is Very Bad, > especially when the advertisers find out! :-( I agree with JC -- make sure you know what's failing befo

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 12 May 2001 16:32:05 -0500 Eric Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any experience in using Mailman with very large > lists? I have a newsletter that goes out to 10,000 people each > week, and each issue is about 30K. Majordomo seems to be tripping > over itself, and m

[Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Eric Schmitz
Does anyone have any experience in using Mailman with very large lists? I have a newsletter that goes out to 10,000 people each week, and each issue is about 30K. Majordomo seems to be tripping over itself, and many of my subscribers are not receiving their newsletter. This is Very Bad, especially

Re: [Mailman-Users] newlist don't make aliases

2001-05-12 Thread Eric Schmitz
marco- I too noticed this. When I run newlist, the aliases are generated, but only in stdout. What I do is simply highlight them and copy, then immediately go to my aliases file and paste them at the end. (Of course, remember to run newaliases -- or, for me, vnewaliases) I could not find any s

[Mailman-Users] newlist don't make aliases

2001-05-12 Thread marco
Hi everybody I'm very new with mailman and mail serving in general I run mailman on a linux redhat 7.0 box, with sendmail 8.11.0-8. Mailman seems to work fine but the problem is when I create a list (test) there is no aliases list displayed... The list exists but when I reply to confirm my subscr

Re: [Mailman-Users] deleting pending requests

2001-05-12 Thread Donal Hunt
Haisam, I posted a script on thursday about how to do it in the latest version of mailman (mailman-2.0). I don't know at what stage the mailman developers changed the way admin requests are stored, but a search through the change log will probably tell ya. :) The script below should work for Ma

[Mailman-Users] Need some help

2001-05-12 Thread vijay
Hello Mailman users, I'm facing problems with unsubscription, we have not given URL to unsubscribe as our bandwidth is very less. i've given mail-id to send their blank email to unsubscribe. the problem is they are sending emails from different mail-id which are not subscribe with t