[Mailman-Users] Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 9 May 2012 16:01:57 -0400
David <dave at fiteyes.com> wrote:

> It seems to me that Mailman provides at least some of the intelligence (via
> logs) that 37Signals custom developed on top of Postfix. Am I right? The
> core suggestions seem to be universalL SPF records, DKIM signing, reverse
> DNS entries, etc.. (And, btw, I don't yet know how to implement any of
> those things except SPF records.)

Not any more than others have done years ago.
Getting to >99.9% delivery for a mailinglist is not difficult. Unless you
use it to manage your newsletter distribution.

The trick is: Do not force people onto your mailinglist. Make it a list
were most people are tech-savy (helps a lot to keep problems down and
if there are any, you get usefull reports) and make sure nobody is using yahoo.
Oh and weed out dead addresses early... For any mailinglist that runs more
than a couple of weeks, you'll have somewhere between 0.1% and 1% dead
addresses per month.

The rest is really just configuring your MTA correctly and keeping an
eye on it.

			Attila Kinali
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