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Subject: Re: creating lists for courses -- capacity?
From: Simon J Mudd <simon . mudd @ alltrading . com>
Date: 03 Sep 1999 13:24:26 +0200
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: rtg@mich.com's message of "3 Sep 1999 12:43:04 +0200"
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rtg@mich.com (Rick Green) writes:

>  Majordomo is currently running lists with many thousands of subscribers.
> In it's vanilla form (1.94.4), it can be slow to send out all that mail
> serially.  More a sendmail issue than majordomo's.  With the addition of
> bulk-mailer, some advantage of parallelization is achieved on larger
> lists.  I've heard that qmail can also do this, and that the features of
> bulk-mailer are built-in to the development (mj2) version.

I believe postfix is being used on some large mailing list (freebsd
use it I think) and have similar performance to qmail.  The advantage
is that the postfix interface to majordomo is identical to sendmail
which makes the migration easier I think.

Simon
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