I have a user who uses a custom system for tracking and maintaining their subscriber list through their web site and have decided to use Mailman to distribute their newsletter. The user is paranoid about their users receiving junk to the list (a result of a bad majordomo experience in the past) so they are manually installing their list of about 4000 addresses, sending their monthly newsletter, and then removing their list of addresses.
The question I have is, how long does that list of addresses need to stay in the system after mailman receives the message to post and it starts sending? Looking in my logs I see that batches of messages are taking some time to be sent, but has mailman already decided who all it is going to send to as soon as it receives the post or does it run through the list of addresses in its database as it is sending out batches of messages? If this is more of an MTA issue, we are using Postfix as the MTA, but does Mailman send the full list of addresses to Postfix for it to decide how to batch them? If Mailman decides right away, either deciding on batching itself or handing it to Postfix for batching I would think he could remove the list of addresses soon after the message is sent (or at least as soon as he has verified messages have started sending). If it reads live I realize the answer will be "it can be removed when it is done", which is fine, I just want to know which we are dealing with. If all this is in the FAQ somewhere that I wasn't seeing I apologize. Thanks. Matthew Ruzicka - Systems Administrator Front Range Internet, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (970) 212-0728 Got SPAM? Take back your email with MailArmory. http://www.MailArmory.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp