[Mailman-Developers] ouch !

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:53 PM +0200 2004/03/29, Fil wrote:

>  Mar 29 17:43:45 2004 (13635) 
><20040329152545.892E536822C at alan.rezo.net> smtp for 150082 recips, 
>completed in 570.064 seconds
>
>  The strange thing is that my settings should not allow 150 0882 recips
>  (which is the total number of subscribers), as I have set
>  SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 900

	Setting SMTP_MAX_RCPTS just controls the maximum total number of 
recipients that Mailman will try to use *per copy* of the message. 
So, divide 150,082 recipients by 900 per message, and you get 166.76 
messages.  The time you see logged is how long it took Mailman to 
chew through all those recipients for 167 messages (the last one 
being less than 900 recipients).

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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