Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-17 Thread Eric Schmitz
Well, you guys are gonna kill me for this, but I seem to have solved my original problem. You may recall that I have a 10,000 member list which gets a 30K mailing each week, and many people were reporting missing issues. Um... it had nothing to do with the size of anything at all. Someb

RE: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-15 Thread Satya
On May 14, 2001 at 09:54, Rabinowitz, Ari (Exchange) wrote: >Chuq, PMJI. >Thanks for all of your good ideas in this thread. I'm new to Postfix, and >Mailman. How would I defer DNS in Postfix? I have a few lists (read only) If I understand you, put one or both of these in main.cf: defer_tra

RE: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-15 Thread Rabinowitz, Ari (Exchange)
unday, May 13, 2001 2:21 AM To: J C Lawrence Cc: Ian White; Mailman Users Group Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages On 5/12/01 10:51 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find this curious. I have MAX_RCPT_TO set to 5, and to broadcast > 30 messa

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-14 Thread Eric Schmitz
Zowie! I seem to have started a major thread here! Thenks everyone for all the advice. I can't pretend to understand everything, since I'm not exactly an e-mail god, but I appreciate the suggestions and will try some. I too had considered going to an "abstract format" for the newsletter, but i

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2001 16:16:44 -0700 (PDT) > alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > >> There's reason to keep the RCPT TO envelope reasonably small to > >> prevent triggering some ISP's SPAM traps. Specific

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 13 May 2001 16:16:44 -0700 (PDT) alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: >> There's reason to keep the RCPT TO envelope reasonably small to >> prevent triggering some ISP's SPAM traps. Specifically, this >> appears to be one of the filter point

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > There's reason to keep the RCPT TO envelope reasonably small to > prevent triggering some ISP's SPAM traps. Specifically, this > appears to be one of the filter points that AOL uses (and of course > it then drops the caught mail silently without a bounce

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 13 May 2001 08:46:57 -0700 (PDT) alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mailman installation talks to the Windows 2000 SMTP MTA, where > there are no performance problems with having the batching set to > a very high number. Multiple queues can send out the same message > at the s

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/13/01 1:21 AM, "Tib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're running on a 384k dsl then the only advertising is the stuff you put > up yourself because it's your server. Not true, but also not really relevant -- I was using it only as an example, since it's my home DSL. My big stuff is somew

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 13 May 2001 01:21:52 -0700 (PDT) tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >> On 5/13/01 12:22 AM, "Tib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If the piece of email is sponsored and has advertising, it's a >> HUGE problem. As was the original poster's note

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 12 May 2001 23:19:15 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/12/01 10:43 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 3) If delivery failures are clogging your MTA queue and are >> noticably slowing delivery rates, you need to start thinking >> about reviewing your M

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 13 May 2001 00:41:16 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/13/01 12:22 AM, "Tib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Who has email that does not have web access at the time they get >> their email? > Not a huge number, but not zero. As wireless mobile becomes more > signifi

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 13 May 2001 00:22:08 -0700 (PDT) tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: >> Your math is off as it ignores RCPT-TO envelope size. > So throw in a few more bytes times 10k and it gets even bigger Chuq has already addressed this point thoroughly. >> Ac

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 12 May 2001 23:21:05 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/12/01 10:51 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I find this curious. I have MAX_RCPT_TO set to 5, and to >> broadcast 30 messages to a subscriber base of 1,000 (ie 6,000 >> spool entries) through

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 5/12/01 6:52 PM, "Ian White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which variables should be changed? It looks like the following could use > > some changes: > > SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500 > > Between 5 and 10 - that should be set for any mailman installation.

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread Tib
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 5/13/01 12:22 AM, "Tib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the piece of email is sponsored and has advertising, it's a HUGE problem. > As was the original poster's note on this stuff. If you're running on a 384k dsl then the only advertising is the

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/13/01 12:44 AM, "Roger B.A. Klorese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you expect wireless mobile NOT to have web access? Hell, I use my web > access when mobile much more than my email access. No, but I expect wireless mobile to have limitations on display -- not to the level that WAP hoses

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > As wireless mobile becomes more significant, it'll be a growing issue, > not a shrinking one. Do you expect wireless mobile NOT to have web access? Hell, I use my web access when mobile much more than my email access. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/13/01 12:22 AM, "Tib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who has email that does not have web access at the time they get their email? Not a huge number, but not zero. As wireless mobile becomes more significant, it'll be a growing issue, not a shrinking one. > True: users who have a bland inter

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread Tib
On Sat, 12 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > Your math is off as it ignores RCPT-TO envelope size. So throw in a few more bytes times 10k and it gets even bigger > 1) If your messages are getting corrupted, AT ALL, you have far more > serious problems than how fast your system is able to deliver

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 10:51 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find this curious. I have MAX_RCPT_TO set to 5, and to broadcast > 30 messages to a subscriber base of 1,000 (ie 6,000 spool entries) > through qrunner to the MTA (postfix) on a dual PII-333 takes just > over 6 seconds once start

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 10:43 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) If your messages are getting corrupted, AT ALL, you have far more > serious problems than how fast your system is able to deliver a list > broadcast. Yeah. TCP guarantees the data is good. You basically can't get corruption un

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 12 May 2001 20:36:37 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > QRUNNER_LOCK_LIFETIME be longer than however long it takes to > deliver your really large message, or the system will assume the > lock is dead and break it. You don't want it too large, because if > the system does

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 12 May 2001 19:20:21 -0700 (PDT) tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To take another approach, mail out a link to the newsletter rather > than the ENTIRE newsletter to each person. Do the math; if you're > mailing out a letter that's 30k, to 10,000 users. that's gonna be > 300 megs of data

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 7:20 PM, "Tib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To take another approach, mail out a link to the newsletter rather than the > ENTIRE newsletter to each person. Do the math; Your math is wrong, though. > if you're mailing out a letter > that's 30k, to 10,000 users. that's gonna be 300 meg

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 6:52 PM, "Ian White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which variables should be changed? It looks like the following could use > some changes: > SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500 Between 5 and 10 - that should be set for any mailman installation. 500 is way too high for reasonable performance. > MAX_

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Tib
To take another approach, mail out a link to the newsletter rather than the ENTIRE newsletter to each person. Do the math; if you're mailing out a letter that's 30k, to 10,000 users. that's gonna be 300 megs of data that's getting pumped through your system, on a weekly basis, with each one having

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Ian White
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > I ran lists larger than that on majordomo. You can run them on mailman, > also, but with 2.0, you need to set things up properly -- out of the box, > you may well have some problems with mailman and lists of that size. The two > issues are the single

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/12/01 2:32 PM, "Eric Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Majordomo seems to be tripping over itself, and many > of my subscribers are not receiving their newsletter. This is Very Bad, > especially when the advertisers find out! :-( I agree with JC -- make sure you know what's failing befo

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 12 May 2001 16:32:05 -0500 Eric Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any experience in using Mailman with very large > lists? I have a newsletter that goes out to 10,000 people each > week, and each issue is about 30K. Majordomo seems to be tripping > over itself, and m

[Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Eric Schmitz
Does anyone have any experience in using Mailman with very large lists? I have a newsletter that goes out to 10,000 people each week, and each issue is about 30K. Majordomo seems to be tripping over itself, and many of my subscribers are not receiving their newsletter. This is Very Bad, especially