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<P><FONT SIZE=2>hi paul;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>we have been using an older version of mailman for two lists of approx. 3000 subscribers. we recently deployed mailman 2.0.x for a big customer of ours, that has one list with 7000+ subscribers. we had some problems for that larger list, but after some research we found out they were configuration-related. the tendency seems to be not to use sendmail (but eg. postfix, exim, ..). if you do use sendmail, configure mailman to use smtpdirect.py and not (i repeat not) sendmail.py.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>i also found some people on the list mentioning 20000+ subscribers, so..</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>good luck,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>frank</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Paul Phippin</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: mailman-users@python.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: 8/18/01 12:53 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: [Mailman-Users] List size</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi there,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I am looking for a mailing list to handle 900 subscribers for a friend</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>(hopefully this will rise to approx 5,000).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>He reports that other lists he has tried work OK up to around 400 - 500</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>then start falling over.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Is mailman suitable for the job ?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Paul Phippin.</FONT>
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