[Mailman-Users] sending message to list

[Dan Wilder]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:37:58PM -0700, Kory Wheatley wrote:
> In mailman is there a way to tell mailman  I want to send 25 users a
> message in one envelope per message. This is done in majordomo with the
> bulk mailer feature. This would be a lot better because then you would
> not have to send one message per user especially if your mailing list is
> 1000 users, it takes a while. This would be a very good performance
> enhancement. I' m current using sendmail as my MTA.
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> Kory Wheatley
> Academic Computing Analyst Sr.
> Phone 282-3874
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> Everything must point to him.

By "envelope" do you mean one SMTP session?

You might try postfix.

We deliver 30,000 messages in less than three hours, on an old
AMD K6-350 using Mailman and Postfix, and the machine hardly
breaks into a sweat.  Load average less than 2. 150 smtp processes.  
Jams up the DSL line! 

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