If you only need to send out a message and not an interactive list with users replying to the list, you could use a program called Mailloop. I work for Adoption.com and I send out their newsletter every Tuesday with over 200,000 users and it takes less than a day to send out. Again this is only for newsletters, not for interactive lists. I store all their email addresses in a MySQL database and just gather it from that before I send each one. It has a built in email filter to strip out bad and duplicates before I send it.
If you want to check it out their website is: http://www.mailloop.com Even at $400 for what we need that's a steal! Good luck, Dean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angel Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Dan Wilder'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Mailman (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend? > > I'm using RH 7.3 and I have a DSL line @ 256k upload - I havn't even > attempted to send messages to list anymore, because I can't even get the web > interface to come up, it times out. I adjusted the cf files manually to show > 3000 addresses per page, and STILL the pages time out. I'm thinking of using > a diffrent application to send out my email. I know a lot of the addresses > are going to bounce, and that is REALLY going to mess up performance, it's > such a shame, we've spent FOUR years collecting these addreses, from 16 > diffrenct universities up and down England. The thing that worries me, is > the bouncing mail, I don't mind if my server takes three days to send all > the mail, it's a one way list, I just want to increase performance when it > comes to admin tasks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Wilder > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:17 PM > To: Mailman (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend? > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:35:19PM +0100, Angel Gabriel wrote: > > I was wondering if mailman supports a MySQL backend, because one of my > lists > > has hit over 100k addresses, and performance is REALLY bad. If mailman > > doesn't support a MySQL backend, does anyone know of any mailing list > > managers that do?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in adance. > > Do you know whether it's mailman, or your MUA that's the sticky > wicket? > > We have one list with 20,000 subscribers. It used to take several > days to get everybody out. Inspection revealed it was the MTA, > Postfix, which needed load tuning, and also the Linux kernel, > which needed some kernel parameters bumped up to allow Postfix > the elbow room to run 150 concurrent delivery processes. > > Now it takes about three hours for most of the good addresses > on the list to get delivered. The sticky wicket is the internet > connection, which also supports telecommuters, so we've had > to tune the mailserver to stop short of saturating the connection. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager > SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 > Seattle, WA 98155-0549 URL http://www.linuxjournal.com/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/