[Mailman-Users] Server Configuration..

[Khalil Abbas]

SMTP_MAX_RCPTS =5 WOULD BE OK? OR SHOULD I REDUCE OR INCREASE IT FOR HOTMAIL 
AND YAHOO TO ACCEPT OUR MESSAGES?

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark Sapiro
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 8:39 PM
To: Khalil Abbas ; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Server Configuration..

Khalil Abbas wrote:
>
>we are a local TV station & newspaper having a mailing list with 2+ Million 
>Subscribers.. what is the best server configuration (CPU, RAM) that can 
>handle this list? taking in consideration that only 1 daily email is sent 
>to the subscribers..


Consider that likely much more than half the impact is going to be from
the MTA rather than Mailman. Perhaps you should be asking on a list
specific to your MTA.

I would suggest at a minimum that you could reduce your Mailman impact
by breaking up your list into perhaps 240 roughly equal sub-lists and
sending the post to one list at a time at 6 minute intervals. Then if
your system can complete delivery of the post from one sub-list to its
8500+- members in under 6 minutes, you should be OK.

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