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At 10:49 AM -0800 2004/01/30, Somuchfun wrote:
Like I said, I have tried other softwares on the market and used their personalization feature. I even tried the same list on the same machine. Mailman needed with personalization about 8.5 hrs. to send out one message to all 50,000 people and Lyris Listmanager needed about 4.5 hours.
Of course, this doesn't address the issue of MTA performance
tuning. I've seen situations where proper tuning resulted in a factor of ten (or more) improvement in the delivery times. See <http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa97/full_papers/21... > and <http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98/full_papers/chalup/chalup_html/chalup.ht... > for two papers discussing this issue.
See also my slides at
<http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/sendmail-tuning/> and <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/dihses/>, and the book _Sendmail Performance Tuning_ by Nick Christensen (at <http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/book/sendmail/>).
If you haven't done your job in tuning the performance of the
MTA, you really don't have much reason to complain about the performance of a mailing list manager with a lot of recipients.
-- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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