well it was your advise on a previous post to set the SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to 5 in
order to let hotmail and yahoo and others accept mail coming from my lists..
if you remember the smtp_max_rcpts was 500 and thousands of subscribers used
to bounce back because Hotmail rejected them.. after setting it to 5 it
worked like a charm .. but I fell into this new problem of large number of
messages flowing and halting the servers..
I don't want to use the throttling patch as it's not stable and not tested
before .. so I have 2 ways, either rebooting the servers like I'm doing now,
or splitting the lists into smaller ones and send to bunch of small lists
every our ..
what do u think?
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 5:44 PM
To: Khalil Abbas
Cc: Geoff Shang ; mailman-users@python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers
On 6/3/11 4:56 AM, Khalil Abbas wrote:
SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to only 5 in mailman resulted in a huge number of
messages generated by mailman that halts the servers, that's why I every
hour stop mailman then stop postfix then reboot the servers to free up
the memory and continue distributing the mail..
What problem were you trying to solve by setting SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 5?
Maybe you should consider raising it or letting it go back to its
default of 500 if things worked better then.
my question is, is this a good solution? or should I split them into
very small lists then send the same message every hour after making sure
that the servers finished distributing the mail for the previous lists?
See the last paragraph of the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/j4A9>. The
throttling patch may help.
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San Francisco Bay Area, California Better use your sense - B. Dylan
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