[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] optimizing mail delivery

[Barry A. Warsaw]

    Dragon> 	In my own highly-hacked version of mailman that I use,
    Dragon> I do this.  Mailman simply drops outgoing messages into
    Dragon> the queue directory. A background daemon de-queues the
    Dragon> messages and pumps them to the local MTA via SMTP. A
    Dragon> cronjob checks the daemon periodically, and starts it if
    Dragon> is falls over. All very simple, and has worked very
    Dragon> reliably for me for several months.

This would make a nice addition to Mailman, and probably wouldn't be
hard to port to the new message pipeline model.  How'd you like to
look into that?

-Barry