On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:59:39 -0500 Rob Jolliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My QoS is low. 99% should be fine. 99.9% would be fantastic. This > is a volunteer list. QoS in this sense is the latency between a message starting to be broadcast and all copies to non-slow MXes delivered. > Here's a simple question I hope. If I pass-through my messages to an > external SMTP server - does Mailman do the parsing of the messages > into the different MX domains or does it leave that up to the SMTP > server? Mailman does no parsing or processing of mail beyond adding list specific headers and attaching bundles of RCPT TO addresses to messages as it passes them to the MTA. > In other words does it send the SMTP server 10 messages with 100 > addresses (for 1000 user list), or does it pre-parse the list into > domains and then send them? The former. > 5 minutes is a starting point, but not necessarily what we will > ultimately settle for. For that sort of problem domain I'd be happy with an hour or less. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
