dear all,

i was truly happy to get to know of the existence of mailman (and its features) from our sysadmin, a few days ago;

it is truly nice to read mailman has most of the features commercial & expensive listserv has ...

i have a few questions:

(a) does mailman make a copy of the message to each of the recipients (as majordomo does) or does it work in the form of a (listserv) job such as

       //V22.5y JOB Echo=yes
       DISTRIBUTE MAIL
       //TO DD *
       recipient1@xy.domain
       recipient2@xy.domain
       recipient3@xy.domain
       recipient ... n ...@xy.domain
       /*
       //DATA DD *,EOF,Res=Disk
       Date:          day month year time
       From:          name of sender, address of sender
       Subject:       subject
       To:

       Dear colleagues, ...

       bla bla blah ...
       ___
       end of message

i.e. sending the message with distribution list to a server and "exploding" the contents due to some routing tables arrangement, saving much bandwidth and cpu time, etc. ...

The example above is a critical factor for the acceptance of Mailman. In this respect, Majodomo is truly poor (excuse me);

(b) also, i would like to know of any "good combination" of a mailer (other than sendmail) and mailman ...

and ...

(c) if which (if any) linux or bsd distribution is stable for large emailing lists.

cheers,

canario.joe@teleline.es