I'm evaluating Imail for an application we have internally, and specifically I'm now looking at the Lists capability.
My question is: capacity-wise, is Imail a good choice for low-traffic, high-subscriber lists? Typically, I'm looking at lists of 100,000 users who might generate maybe 20-30 emails per MONTH. If you think Imail isn't good for this particular task, I'd be interested to hear what people are using... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Len Conrad > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] List Settings, Limitations > > > > >I have a client who wants to send email to a list of 70k-80k > >subscribers. > > > >1. Is this possible? > > sure > > > Worthwhile? > > your client defines the worth to him and his list members, > you have to > decide whether that is worth your hassle, and whether it > will be chargeable. > > > Alternatives? > > that's a lot a list mail for Imail, you MUST use Declude > Queue to have any > chance of keeping the list traffic moving. even then, you > will certainly > be better off with real list server that can do automatic > bounce processing. > > >2. In the manual I see that the number of processes should be > >#recipients/25. If I divide the 80k/25 I get over 3000 processes? > > theoretically. > > a process will typically take 10 secs to deliver a msg. 6 > msgs/minute per > process, 6000 msg/min for 1000 process, gives 36,000 hour. good luck > > Len > > www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
