[Mailman-Users] newbie question about how to mailman sends out bulk emails

[Patrick Bogen]

On 6/7/06, david meltzer <david at deltanetco.com> wrote:
> can i get mailman send out 100 emails with 50 users each?
Yes, just set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS in your mm_cfg.py to 50.

> can i get mailman to send out 5000 emails one by one?
Sure. Set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to 1, and/or enable full personalization.

> if so, can i throttle the email per minute?
No, but your MTA can. However, that's not a mailman question.

> also, i do not need the overhead of forcing people to 'join' the group.
> i want to just have some kind of flat file database with the list of people the mailing should goto.
> is this doable?
Yes, you can mass subscribe a list of members.

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- Patrick Bogen