[Mailman-Users] Performance question

J C Lawrence claw at varesearch.com
Thu Jul 22 00:40:01 CEST 1999


On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:03:26 -0400 
Jeff Barger <jeff at look.net> wrote:

> Hi all, Just wondering, what are the biggest lists that anyone is
> running though mailman? I've got a non-profit group I'm getting
> ready to set a list up for and their current sub list is
> approx. 100,000 but with pretty light traffic (2-3
> messages/day). No archiving or anything, just message
> delivery. Should mailman handle this ok or am I asking for
> trouble?

While I haven't gone that big, I've gotten close.  Your biggest
concern is going to be tuning the MTA that MailMan delivers to, not
MailMan itself.

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