[Mailman-Users] Mailman technical limitations

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:47 PM +0200 2005-05-01, David LeVine wrote:

>  Question:
>  We want to be able to send very customized emails for each user and thought
>  about creating a different 'list' for each user. We would create the
>  customized email for each user, and then pass that email to Mailman for
>  sending.

	See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.040.htp>.

>  - Is there a limitation to the number of lists? ie: Can I create 100,000 or
>  1 million lists?

	There are no hard-coded limits.  There are certainly going to be 
practical limits.  What those practical limits are will depend on 
your hardware configuration, your OS, etc....

>  - What is the send rate - How many emails per hour will Mailman send out?

	Mailman will send out as many messages per hour as it can, 
depending on the limitations of your hardware, OS, software, etc.... 
See 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.015.htp>.

>  - If you don't think it would work via Mailman, what would you suggest?

	A real Customer Relations Management system.  See 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.018.htp> 
and 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.037.htp>.

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