The largest list I've heard of was one for a newspaper approaching 17,000
subscribers then they started suffering in the performance department so
they switched to qmail or some other bulk mailer integrated with the MTA.
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Ian Douglas wrote:
> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:30:21 -0500
> From: Ian Douglas <ian@wildwebservices.com>
> To: majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM
> Subject: mailing list 'work'
>
> Hey all.
>
> I'm running RedHat Linux 5.1 with Perl 5.004_004 on a P-200MMX with 80MB of
> RAM, and I'm curious to know if anyone has any idea how much mailing list
> "work" could be done on my server before Majordomo has to be replaced with
> some other bulk mailer?
>
> For example, I've only got about a dozen mailing lists all under 1000
> subscribers but one or two of the mailing lists have the potential to have
> many tens of thousands of subscribers (one of them being the daily quote
> list I was asking about earlier) and I'm wondering how hard that's going to
> work my server, or if Majordomo can even keep up with that.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts?
> ---
> Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services
> ian@wildwebservices.com
> ICQ UIN: 506679
>
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