At 02:56 pm 4/6/96 -0700, Andrew N. Edmond spake:
>I would be willing to make that trade off (SmartList over MajorDomo) if I
>could prove that SmartList handled system resources better that Majordomo.
>
>Any thoughts on this?
I just moved my mailing list over from an aliased sendmail
list to procmail/SmartList. I was unable to get majordomo working
well at all--it's a major kluge!
I sent out my first mailing last night to a list of 1070 email
addresses and it took less than an hour. With aliased sendmail
alone it took over 8 hours.
SmartMail is very smart. It splits my list up into managable
chunks and spawns multiple copies of sendmail to send it out. It
does preprocessing on the addresses to make sure that sendmail isn't
wasting its time. It handles bounces, and will even unsubscribe
addresses that bounce more than n times.
I like it. But then, I gave up on majordomo before really getting
it running. But I saw the code and concluded that it was too klugey.
BTW, majordomo is written in perl and SmartList is almost all
in well-written C (I've been writing and teaching C for over 10 years).
MHO,
--Bill Weinman
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