[Mailman-Users] List performance queries

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:20 PM -0400 2003/07/02, J C Lawrence wrote:

>  Configurable.  I'd set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to be fairly high, tho not more
>  than 100 (see Chuq von Rospach's notes on the performance impacts and
>  implications of this setting for more typical MX distributions).

	Back in 2000, there was a fairly long thread in 
mailman-developers about large lists.  Start with 
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2000-May/006795.html> 
and work your way through.

	There's also an interesting message from Chuq to 
mailman-developers that is more directly related to this issue at 
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2001-June/008928.html>. 
In short, he says that you probably want to set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to be 
at least 2, and beyond 5 it doesn't seem to buy a whole lot.

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