[Zope] 'Offline' mailhost

2000-10-03 Thread Chris Withers
Shane Hathaway wrote: > I'm not sure how well MailHost scales, but you can certainly store > thousands of names in a ZODB-managed list. Tests done for the > BTreeFolder product prove it. Sadly, I think MailHost doesn't scale too well :-( What it'd need to do if you're sending the mail to a few

Re: [Zope] 'Offline' mailhost

2000-10-04 Thread Hannu Krosing
Chris Withers wrote: > > Shane Hathaway wrote: > > I'm not sure how well MailHost scales, but you can certainly store > > thousands of names in a ZODB-managed list. Tests done for the > > BTreeFolder product prove it. > > Sadly, I think MailHost doesn't scale too well :-( > > What it'd need to

Re: [Zope] 'Offline' mailhost

2000-10-04 Thread Chris Withers
Hannu Krosing wrote: > Perhaps it would be better to solve this by configuring your sendmail > (or other SMTP MTA) to be non-blocking, i.e. store-and-forward. Can you tell me how to set that up with exim? > Also you could send just one message to all the recipients instead of > sending individua

Re: [Zope] 'Offline' mailhost

2000-10-04 Thread Ken Manheimer
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote: > Perhaps it would be better to solve this by configuring your sendmail > (or other SMTP MTA) to be non-blocking, i.e. store-and-forward. This seems like a good idea. It makes it hard to get disposition status for the delivery in the transaction - but t

Re: [Zope] 'Offline' mailhost

2000-10-04 Thread Bill Welch
Techniques for effeciently sending a message to a large number of recipients are covered extensively in majordomo documentation - www.greatcircle.com/majordomo. Also check out ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/moore/bulk_mailer Bill. On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Chris Withers wrote: > > Also you could send just one

Re: [Zope] 'Offline' mailhost

2000-10-04 Thread Terry Kerr
Chris Withers wrote: > Hannu Krosing wrote: > > Perhaps it would be better to solve this by configuring your sendmail > > (or other SMTP MTA) to be non-blocking, i.e. store-and-forward. > > Can you tell me how to set that up with exim? > > > Also you could send just one message to all the recip

Re: [Zope] 'Offline' mailhost

2000-10-07 Thread Jan H. Haul
Terry Kerr wrote: > > Chris Withers wrote: > > > Hannu Krosing wrote: > > > > > Also you could send just one message to all the recipients instead of > > > sending individual messages. > > > > Urm, they could be pretty unfriendly mail messages if they're being sent > > to a coupla thousand peopl

Re: [Zope] 'Offline' mailhost

2000-10-07 Thread Michael Bernstein
"Jan H. Haul" wrote: > > Each of these will be around 42 KByte large. > > Huh? Why that? you ask. > Because in the header of each mail, the whole recipient list will > be listed under To: or Cc: > [snip] > - privacy: You would not like to have "your" recipients end up on > other people's mailing

Re: [Zope] 'Offline' mailhost

2000-10-09 Thread Jan H. Haul
Michael Bernstein wrote: > > "Jan H. Haul" wrote: > > > > Each of these will be around 42 KByte large. > > > > Huh? Why that? you ask. > > Because in the header of each mail, the whole recipient list will > > be listed under To: or Cc: > > [snip] > > - privacy: You would not like to have "your" r