Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-22 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:38:05PM +0530, Phoenix Kiula wrote: Hi. I need to send annoucements to a large opt-in list. Having never done this before [...] Since you've never done this before, and you mention that the list has 400K users, I urge extreme caution. Unless you/your operation have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-19 Thread Ed's Shop
On Saturday, April 18, 2009 1:16 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: I went into the mailman in cpanel [...] As others have pointed out, 400K addresses with full personalization is a big job that may well require some MTA tuning. And a hosting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-18 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Thanks Mark. (1) Is it possible for mailman to send emails where the to: header has the email of a specific recipient? It's more personal than sending to a common email address. Yes. It's called Full Personalization How can I enable it? I went into the mailman in cpanel and did not find

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-18 Thread Brad Knowles
on 4/17/09 11:45 PM, Phoenix Kiula said: Yes. It's called Full Personalization How can I enable it? I went into the mailman in cpanel and did not find this setting in the Non Digest section. Then I read the faq - http://www.list.org/faq.html - and there's no information on full

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Phoenix Kiula wrote: Yes. It's called Full Personalization How can I enable it? I went into the mailman in cpanel and did not find this setting in the Non Digest section. If the setting isn't in the Non Digest section, the installation has not allowed list owners to enable personalization.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: I went into the mailman in cpanel [...] As others have pointed out, 400K addresses with full personalization is a big job that may well require some MTA tuning. And a hosting service using cpanel is unlikely to be one that provides you

[Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-13 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Hi. I need to send annoucements to a large opt-in list. Having never done this before and not being now confident if PHP's mail() can manage it, I was pointed to mailman. My questions: (1) Is it possible for mailman to send emails where the to: header has the email of a specific recipient? It's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-13 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Sorry,also one more question: (4) What is a good way to add about 400,000 users? Can I save these in a huge text file and then use the upload function in the mailman web interface? I wonder if this will crash my server. (I could do it in batches of 100,000 or so). Thanks! On Sat, Apr 11,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-13 Thread Brad Knowles
on 4/11/09 11:08 AM, Phoenix Kiula said: Hi. I need to send annoucements to a large opt-in list. Having never done this before and not being now confident if PHP's mail() can manage it, I was pointed to mailman. My questions: For all your questions, I would encourage you to first visit our

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending bulk mail (400,000 users)

2009-04-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
Phoenix Kiula wrote: Sorry,also one more question: (4) What is a good way to add about 400,000 users? Can I save these in a huge text file and then use the upload function in the mailman web interface? I wonder if this will crash my server. (I could do it in batches of 100,000 or so).