[Mailman-Users] Throttling output

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:02 PM -0400 2006-06-14, Steve Campbell wrote:

>  2.   Disable the mailman executable from delivering the outgoing mail, but
>  create them in the queue (sort of a sendmail queueonly option). I'm not sure
>  this one is possible, and will kill the entire scheme if not. I see a lot of
>  possible ways this can be done, but I'm not a python programmer yet, so I
>  hope this is do-able.

	This is an MTA configuration issue.  There's nothing here to 
"fix" within Mailman.

>  5.   Move all of this to it's own server.

	That's a pretty big point.  Mailing list servers should not be 
dependent on the normal mail servers, and vice-versa.

	In fact, I suspect that once you move the mailing list handling 
onto a separate server, all the need for any kind of throttling will 
go away completely.

>  Number 2 above is the killer, as I'm not sure if the sendmail alias/piped
>  command would control this, an option in the Mailman configs, or what.

	It's an issue that should be easy enough to fix through modifying 
the configuration file.

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