On 1/25/06 7:40 AM, "John W. Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/25/06 7:21 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was told by my hosting company that I need to pick a mailing list manager >> for my 14,000+ subscriber e-mail list that would stagger the sending of the >> email to something like 300 e-mails per hour to lower the impact on the >> server. I already have Mailman installed, and the entire list currently sits >> there. Is there any way to do this with Mailman? > > If you expect more than four messages per week to be sent to the list, then > you can't do this with any mailing list manager. (If I can still do > arithmetic, it would take about 44 hours to send 14,000 messages at 300 per > hour.) > > I think you need a different hosting company. > > Aside from that little detail, this general question has come up several > times recently, and as far as I know the answer remains "no". > Oops. That was a little too strong, if the hosting company means 300 messages, not 300 recipients. You would need to NOT turn on personalization, or VERP, and you would probably need to turn off the monthly password reminders. Given that, you would still run into the answer that no, Mailman doesn't throttle. But some other list management software might work. Go to the Mailman FAQ (link in the footer to this message) and search for throttle for more information. Rather than a whole new hosting company, you may want to look for a separate host for your list, one that specializes in lists. You would then need list mailing addresses like list.example.com rather than example.com, so the world can direct the mail properly, and the same for the web interface. Such a hosting company might prefer software other than Mailman, or might prefer Mailman. --John ------------------------------------------------------ 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
