Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-29 Thread John W. Baxter
On 11/27/06 11:48 PM, Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The easiest way is to configure your MTA so that it has a different and customized configuration that it uses for listening to a particular numbered port on the loopback interface (a.k.a., 127.0.0.1), and then you configure Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:15 PM +0800 11/28/06, Stanley Chen wrote: Can you elaborate more? How to seperate the mail queues and drop the filter scans? The easiest way is to configure your MTA so that it has a different and customized configuration that it uses for listening to a particular numbered port on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-27 Thread Mathias Andre
Thank you for all your comments, next time I'll RTFM a bit more :) I'll let you know how it goes, Mathias On 11/25/06, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As one stat, one of my lists of 10,000 is usually completed within 24 mins. I usually drop all filter scans during that time, plus I use

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-27 Thread Stanley Chen
Can you elaborate more? How to seperate the mail queues and drop the filter scans? Mathias Andre wrote: Thank you for all your comments, next time I'll RTFM a bit more :) I'll let you know how it goes, Mathias On 11/25/06, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As one stat, one of my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-25 Thread Jack Stone
As one stat, one of my lists of 10,000 is usually completed within 24 mins. I usually drop all filter scans during that time, plus I use 20 separate mail queues (sendmail) so too many don't pile up in a single queue and has to start over delaying send-outs. These 2 things have affected my speed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-25 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As one stat, one of my lists of 10,000 is usually completed within 24 mins. I usually drop all filter scans during that time, I don't do that. I have a special port on my MTA that only allows Mailman to connect to it and mail coming in that way is not being

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Mathias Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone, The organisation I work for is in the process of migrating our currentmailing lists (using majordomo) to Mailman. In parallel of this migration we have been ask to set up a very large mailing list: between 15000 to 25000 users. This would be a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mathias Andre wrote: I was wondering how well would mailman cope with such a large list. Has any of you done anything similar? See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq01.015.htp. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:39 AM +0100 11/24/06, Mathias Andre wrote: In parallel of this migration we have been ask to set up a very large mailing list: between 15000 to 25000 users. This would be a moderated list (actually more like some kind of newsletter). I was wondering how well would mailman cope with

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and (really) large lists

2006-11-23 Thread Mathias Andre
Hi everyone, The organisation I work for is in the process of migrating our currentmailing lists (using majordomo) to Mailman. In parallel of this migration we have been ask to set up a very large mailing list: between 15000 to 25000 users. This would be a moderated list (actually more like some