Mailman and large lists
I'm wondering if anyone can give me information about how Mailman copes with very large lists - over 100,000 subscribers.
I'm considering using Mailman for our company newsletters, some of which have over 100k subscribers. I haven't found any examples of Mailman being used successfully in this kind of situation, so if you are doing it please let me know. On the other hand, if you don't think that mailman is suitable I'd love to hear about it too.
Thanks, Matt
PS. In case anyone is worried - this isn't for spam :)
Dear Matt,
Just to warn you when importing e-mail addresses: there is a bug which causes Mailman to loop if an imported address contains a & (we had this problem when changing from majordomo to mailman lists and no solution has been provided as yet)
Tsjebbe Antenna Foundation The Netherlands
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Matt Eckhaus wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone can give me information about how Mailman copes with very large lists - over 100,000 subscribers.
I'm considering using Mailman for our company newsletters, some of which have over 100k subscribers. I haven't found any examples of Mailman being used successfully in this kind of situation, so if you are doing it please let me know. On the other hand, if you don't think that mailman is suitable I'd love to hear about it too.
Thanks, Matt
PS. In case anyone is worried - this isn't for spam :)
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Just to warn you when importing e-mail addresses: there is a bug which causes Mailman to loop if an imported address contains a & (we had this problem when changing from majordomo to mailman lists and no solution has been provided as yet)
As the problem seems to have come from the '&' being interpreted as a shell metacharacter, I suspect that this problem can happen only if one uses Sendmail.py instead of SMTPDirect.py ...
(Is this correct?)
Greetings, Norbert.
-- A founder of the http://DotGNU.org project and Steering Committee member Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://thinkcoach.com List hosting with GNU Mailman on your own domain name http://cisto.com
"NB" == Norbert Bollow <nb@thinkcoach.com> writes:
>> Just to warn you when importing e-mail addresses: there is a
>> bug which causes Mailman to loop if an imported address
>> contains a & (we had this problem when changing from majordomo
>> to mailman lists and no solution has been provided as yet)
NB> As the problem seems to have come from the '&' being
NB> interpreted as a shell metacharacter, I suspect that this
NB> problem can happen only if one uses Sendmail.py instead of
NB> SMTPDirect.py ...
NB> (Is this correct?)I believe so. -Barry
Dear Norbert,
This is indeed what was mailed to me last Friday, so I presume you are right.
Greetings,
Tsjebbe
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Norbert Bollow wrote:
Just to warn you when importing e-mail addresses: there is a bug which causes Mailman to loop if an imported address contains a & (we had this problem when changing from majordomo to mailman lists and no solution has been provided as yet)
As the problem seems to have come from the '&' being interpreted as a shell metacharacter, I suspect that this problem can happen only if one uses Sendmail.py instead of SMTPDirect.py ...
(Is this correct?)
Greetings, Norbert.
-- A founder of the http://DotGNU.org project and Steering Committee member Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://thinkcoach.com List hosting with GNU Mailman on your own domain name http://cisto.com
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
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