[Mailman-Users] How about throttling?

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Thu Dec 4 05:46:56 CET 2008


Grant Taylor wrote:
>
>I believe it is possible to have Mailman use the sendmail (binary / 
>command) rather than SMTP direct to send emails.


Yes, but read all the caveats and warnings in
Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py.

Don't do it.

Besides, SMTPDirect delivers via the local MTA, so if you're going to
implement throttling in the MTA (as we recommend in the FAQ -
<http://wiki.list.org/x/j4A9>), you still can use SMTPDirect.

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