[Mailman-Developers] thouhts on web scripts & sending mail

[RicardoKustner]

Hi,

From what i've noticed, when an action in the mailman web interface sends out
a message, it does this directly by calling another part of the system that
makes the smtp connection. Sending out just one message this way is probably
not much of a problem... but if it sends out a large batch of messages (like
when you approve a large number of messages), the http connection is staying
open untill all of the messages are send to the MTA on the localhost... I was
wondering if maybe it could be better if the cgi scripts 'mark' messages as
being allowed to post to the list, and a mailman cron job picking them up next
time... i think this could also make the UID-thing a bit less complicated as
the cgi scripts don't have to send out any mail, just make a small change in
the database. And maybe this also can prevent the high system loads when
the cgi scripts are feeding messages to the MTA and the MTA is trying to deliver
most of them at the same time (at least, that's what's happening in my
mailman/exim configuration)

maybe i'm completely wrong, but these were just my thoughts :)

Ricardo.

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