[Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

[Dean Householder]

If you only need to send out a message and not an interactive list with
users replying to the list, you could use a program called Mailloop.  I work
for Adoption.com and I send out their newsletter every Tuesday with over
200,000 users and it takes less than a day to send out.  Again this is only
for newsletters, not for interactive lists.  I store all their email
addresses in a MySQL database and just gather it from that before I send
each one.  It has a built in email filter to strip out bad and duplicates
before I send it.

If you want to check it out their website is:
http://www.mailloop.com

Even at $400 for what we need that's a steal!

Good luck,
Dean


----- Original Message -----
From: "Angel Gabriel" <badmangabriel at lycos.co.uk>
To: "'Dan Wilder'" <dan at ssc.com>
Cc: "Mailman (E-mail)" <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?


>
> I'm using RH 7.3 and I have a DSL line @ 256k upload - I havn't even
> attempted to send messages to list anymore, because I can't even get the
web
> interface to come up, it times out. I adjusted the cf files manually to
show
> 3000 addresses per page, and STILL the pages time out. I'm thinking of
using
> a diffrent application to send out my email. I know a lot of the addresses
> are going to bounce, and that is REALLY going to mess up performance, it's
> such a shame, we've spent FOUR years collecting these addreses, from 16
> diffrenct universities up and down England. The thing that worries me, is
> the bouncing mail, I don't mind if my server takes three days to send all
> the mail, it's a one way list, I just want to increase performance when it
> comes to admin tasks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Dan Wilder
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:17 PM
> To: Mailman (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:35:19PM +0100, Angel Gabriel wrote:
> > I was wondering if mailman supports a MySQL backend, because one of my
> lists
> > has hit over 100k addresses, and performance is REALLY bad. If mailman
> > doesn't support a MySQL backend, does anyone know of any mailing list
> > managers that do?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in adance.
>
> Do you know whether it's mailman, or your MUA that's the sticky
> wicket?
>
> We have one list with 20,000 subscribers.  It used to take several
> days to get everybody out.  Inspection revealed it was the MTA,
> Postfix, which needed load tuning, and also the Linux kernel,
> which needed some kernel parameters bumped up to allow Postfix
> the elbow room to run 150 concurrent delivery processes.
>
> Now it takes about three hours for most of the good addresses
> on the list to get delivered.  The sticky wicket is the internet
> connection, which also supports telecommuters, so we've had
> to tune the mailserver to stop short of saturating the connection.
>
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