[Mailman-Users] Speeding up delivery

[Florian Weimer]

Dan Mick <dmick at utopia.west.sun.com> writes:

> > My mailer (Exim) delivers a message
> > for multiple recipients sequentially.  Of course, this is more
> > efficient in terms of network usage, but processing several batches in
> > parallel is faster (and network bandwidth isn't an issue here).
> 
> Oh, do you mean "simultaneous batches"?

Yes, I do.

> If your Python is built with threads, you can use mm_cfg's
> MAX_DELIVERY_THREADS.  I've never tried it.  As with everything you
> can set in mm_cfg, see Defaults.py for documentation, and set it in
> mm_cfg.py if you decide to try it.

Thanks.  It's sufficient to set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to a lower value in my
setup, I think.  This should have almost the same effect.