[Mailman-Users] Random Mail List

[Jon Carnes]

Interesting question.  I'm sure that Mailman does a sort based on the email 
addresses domainnames.  Mailman comes setup to deliver multiple members of 
the same domain with one mail attachment to that domain.  The only way it can 
do this is to sort by domain name before it begins to send.

You should be able to check your MTA logs to see when Mailman begins a send.  
As to when it ends, that depends on the remote email servers of each 
individual email user on the list.  Your MTA logs will also tell you who it 
has tried to email and the result of that attempt.

My MTA of choice is sendmail, and my logs are in /var/log/maillog

Jon Carnes

 --- Original Message: Friday 01 March 2002 02:44 pm ---
> I would like to be able to prove when a list begins and ends sending.  I
> tried subscribing aaa at mydomain.com and zzz at mydomain.com.  But the list does
> not seem to send in alpha order.  Looking at a generated file using
> ~/mailman/bin/list_members does not show the list members in order of date
> of subscription or alpha.
>
>
> How does mailman choose to send to the list, "Alpha, Date of subscription"?
>
> What is a good way to know how many have been sent, or percentage done?
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Regards
> MikeT
>
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