[Mailman-Users] Questions in reference to Mail Man???

[Jon Carnes]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:27, Keith wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> We have been using Mail Man on our Linux based Mail Server for the last
> three weeks to mail to our Newsletter list of nearly 50,000 members.
> Everytime we send the Newsletter our Mail Server goes down.  This only
> happens when we use Mail Man.  Are there issues with the number of people
> that Mail Man can mail to.  Mail Man seems to work flawlessly when we send
> test message to small list groups.  It is only when we launch to our total
> list of 50,000 there is an issue that arises.
> 
This is most likely a problem with insufficient RAM.  Try doubling the
memory in your server.

> We have also noticed that none of our AOL members now get the Newsletter.
> Have you heard of anything that can be done to help with this issue.  We
> know AOL has changed there SPAM variables recently.  We didn't know if
> something could be set with in Mail Man to get through this issue.
> 
You can use VERP (look in the FAQ...).  There are also several
discussions of this in the archives of the list.