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--On Monday, April 24, 2000 10:27 AM -0700 James Duncan Davidson <james.davidson@E...> wrote: >> It's been a long time since I had to think about managing lists >> on a daily basis. What's the current state of the art? I've used >> Majordomo in the past, and that's what OASIS is running now, is >> that still the best choice? > > We've moved all of apache off to qmail and ezmlm.. Much better now. > Throughput is up and ezmlm has all sorts of list management features > that most others don't (that I know of) including detecting when a user > goes unavailable for a while and then detecting when that user comes > back and offering to send the messages that the user missed out on. Unfortunately, qmail likes to send each message as a separate job, so that it will make multiple connections for people served by the same server Sendmail has the opposite problem, sending everything as one job, so half the list will wait for a slow server to connect (or not). For maximum efficiency, you need multiple jobs, but everything for one mail server in the same job. This is what bulk_mailer tries to do. It groups the mail by destination domain, then breaks it into separate sendmail transactions. The only thing I disagree with in bulk_mailer is that the README strongly suggests avoiding the Precedence header. But just enough vacation programs pay attention to that, so it is really worth adding the "-precedence bulk" flag. wunder -- Walter R. Underwood Senior Staff Engineer, Infoseek Software http://software.infoseek.com/ *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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