[Mailman-Users] List swamped

[Chris D.Halverson]

Jonah Baker <jonah at votenader.org> writes:

> I am using mailman for Ralph Nader's presidential campaign.  It has worked
> wonderfully except for one thing.  Our main announce-only list seems not to
> be responding.  It has 15,000 members subscribed.  Are we a victim of our
> own success?  Any idea how I can send e-mails out to this group of people?

I run a list that has about twice that many subscribers, and I can bet
that some of the python.org or other big lists are much bigger than
that. It too is an "annouce only" type of thing. No problems
whatsoever. This is especially true after I switched from sendmail to
postfix as the MTA. I would look at your MTA and/or system resources
(memory, etc.) and see if you can tweak that a bit. Mailman should
have no problem w/ this size of list (at least in my experience).

cdh

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