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Subject: Delivering to large mailing lists
From: Jered J Floyd <jered @ mit . edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 01:51:13 -0500
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com


Fellow list managers,
   I have just brought a very large mailing list (~10000 subscribers,
cwd@vorlon.mit.edu, Brock Meeks' CyberWire Digest) into production here,
and am unsatisifed with sendmail's delivery speed.  My main problem is
that sendmail only uses one process per message to deliver mail, which
I find to be suboptimal for a list of this size.  One option I have would
be to use qmail, but I would prefer not to do that for several reasons.

  One solution that has been suggested to me is to use a helper program
called bulk_mailer.pl, which breaks large lists into 'bite-sized chunks'
for sendmail to deliver.  Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate
this tool. Is anyone familiar with it, and knows where it can be found?
Thanks.

--Jered Floyd
jered@mit.edu
majordomo-owner@vorlon.mit.edu


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