[Mailman-Developers] thousands of subscribers

[Gergely Madarasz]

On 29 Jan 1999, Janne Sinkkonen wrote:

> One thing is the subscriber list, visible for subscribers
> themselves. It is linear, everything on one page and doesn't work well
> for 25000 members. Another thing is the digest format which triggers a
> sendmail MIME bug. Be sure to have sendmail 8.9.1 or newer, otherwise
> you site will explode. :) Even if your sendmail works, you're going to
> get annoyed messages from administrators of other sites who have an
> older sendmail dumping core because of your digests.

The sendmail MIME bug triggers only when your sendmail wants to send a
8bitmime mail to a remote smtp server which does not support 8bitmime, so
your sendmail has to transform it... And in most cases the other sites
sendmail won't dump core because probably it won't need to send them to a
third host...

Greg, who was bitten by the MIME problem severly...

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