[Mailman-Users] Newbie question

[Rob Jolliffe]

Hi Jon,

Thanks to you and everyone for your answers.  I think I've got more or less 
the information I wanted.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

-Rob

On 24 Dec 2002 at 11:58, Jon Carnes wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 11:01, Rob Jolliffe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 24 Dec 2002 at 10:30, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > 
> > > The way Mailman works by default is that it will break the message out
> > > by domain.  Thus it will send one message to each domain - up to a
> > > maximum of 100 folks at one domain, this is set in
> > > ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py. 
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply.  You say "by default."  Does this mean that it can be 
> > configured to NOT break messages into the domains and let the SMTP server do 
> > that instead?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > -Rob
> 
> In this case, the "non-default" is to break out the messages by
> individual sender (what they now call personalization mode).
> 
> For your use, default should work okay.  Also, you should setup Sendmail
> (or whatever MTA you are using) to use your ISP's Mail service as a
> "smart relay".  That way, mailman will break out all the messages via
> domain and send one message to each domain.
> 
> Each Mailing list message will be dropped off with your MTA (the local
> Sendmail install).  Sendmail will see that the messages are not local
> and forward them to your ISP's Mail service.  Your ISP will receive the
> messages and do all the heavy lifting of DNS look-ups and different Mail
> server communications.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Jon Carnes
> 
> 


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Robert Jolliffe
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Technology Partner, Dynac Inc.
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