Richard Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would also split the total membership into some shorter sublists, > say by splitting it into alphabetical sublists, and have each of those > sublists subscribed to an umbrella list, which is what you post to. > > The way Mailman saves and handles list memberships is likely to choke > fairly badly on 500,000 addresses in one lump but cope a lot better > with a series of < 50,000 member sublists. > > The other comments in the FAQ are still applicable.
I'm seeing that mailman's problems are with memory requirements. We have a machine with 392 MiB of RAM and it crawls to handle a 25K subscribers list... This is on a RH 8, with the latest stable release of mailman. -- Godoy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
