[Mailman-Users] MTAs for huge lists on mailman2

[Nigel Metheringham]

Which MTAs are people using with mailman for large lists (> 5000 
subscribers)?
I'm particularly interested in mailman 2.0b2 (or later :-) ), since 
that puts all recipients into a single SMTP transaction - the MTA sees 
one message with 5000+ recipients.

Different MTAs have different trade-offs.
Exim (and smail) routes all recipients before starting delivery - so 
this configuration could have a long startup delay before it starts 
delivering, but I don't currently have a feel for how significant this 
is especially where there is nearby cached DNS and a decent list 
throughput.
Qmail effectively makes a separate envelope for each user, so 
deliveries will start very fast.

I don't know what postfix and sendmail do...

	Nigel.
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