[Mailman-Developers] Adding headers to mailman generated mails

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:04, Somuchfun wrote:
> Brad,
> I did some testing with a 50,000 members list and the time it takes to send
> when using personalization is twice as long (8hrs instead of 4).

This is not surprising given Chuq's analysis.

> Of course that is bad news. I also tested some other mailing list software
> like Gordano's Communicator and Lyris Listmanager and they both seem to be
> able to send in batches but still add or include personalized fields to
> trace the messages.
> So if they can do it my simple question is why cannot mailman do it but
> still send in batches?

Maybe they do XVERP?  There's a patch of SF I haven't looked at yet that
adds XVERP support to Mailman.  But that will only help you with bounce
detection, and only then with compliant servers.  AFAIK, XVERP isn't yet
a standard.

-Barry