At 7:35 AM -0700 2004-08-28, John W. Baxter wrote:
Does the code open the list once, obtain the addresses it needs (the non-digest, not-no-mail, not duplicate filtered, etc) and then do its thing without regard to the list object on disk, or does it keep peeking into the object on disk while it's emitting messages.
IMO, making changes like this while Mailman is still processing the message is unsafe and a very bad idea. At the very least, I think you should make sure that Mailman has completed all of its processing and all copies of the message have been handed off to the MTA, even if the MTA hasn't completed its own processing.
But then, if those extra milliseconds matter and you want to greatly increase the risk of blowing off your foot with a hair-trigger large explosive device, you could always modify the code so as to allow you to do that. Of course, you couldn't expect to get much support here for any of your local modifications of that sort, but then if you're willing to make these kinds of modifications for these kinds of reasons, you probably don't care about community support anyway.
If the code keeps peeking at the list object on disk, then what matters is how long it takes to get the message to the SMTP server to which we submit the messages. That time can be read from the smtp log, and provides an upper bound. I doubt one needs to wait that long. It's longer if Mailman is VERPing.
If you single-thread all deliveries to the list (so that one completes before the next one is allowed to start), then it's a relatively simple matter of watching the log files to see when it should be safe to make the changes.
Regardless of how you do it and how safe or unsafe you make this process, this sort of thing will probably require some code changes, and then you're back to the community support problem again.
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