[Mailman-Users] Slow Performance on semi-large lists

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 1:37 AM +0500 12/14/00, Neil Cooler wrote:

>It often takes 2 or 3 hours for the mailings to go out (even the smaller
>ones).  I would like to increase performance, but i'm not really too
>sure what to do.

make sure you have

SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 10

in your mm_cfg file, to split up deliveries into small pieces. 
Otherwise, each message goes out in one mail batch, and you 
single-thread each message, and everyone behind a slow receiver has 
to wait.

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