[Mailman-Users] Re: Does mailman work well for large lists?

[Carl Zwanzig]

On 2/27/2021 11:42 AM, Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users wrote:
I don't think the number of lists is as important as the number of 
subscribers on each list.


IIRC, there are/were some MM2 lists of over 100k subscribers. Key is to 
supply enough resources (proc & memory, bonus for fast storage).




Windows or Linux server recommended?


My vote is for Linux (or another Unix varient).


I prefer FreeBSD for server work, but yes, definitely not windows.

Later,

z!
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[Mailman-Users] Re: Does mailman work well for large lists?

[David Andrews]

At 04:29 PM 2/26/2021, david.bar...@mail.com wrote:

Good day,
Looking for a solution to have about 50-200 lists for 
subscribers.  Any good examples of mailman being used for 50+ lists 
you can share for me to see? Trying to see

the feasibility of implementing a solution in next 90 days.

Would like to see a working one, where a user would go to a site, 
and pick a list to subscribe.


Is mailman easy to setup and maintain?

Windows or Linux server recommended?


I run a site with about 280 lists. Just use the stock Mailman stuff:

http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/

Another 75 hidden lists.  It takes me a couple hours a day, in part 
because I at least look at each message.  Most time filled up with 
helping people subscribe, unsubscribe, get lists of members for list 
moderators etc.  People don't know how to use their tools.


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[Mailman-Users] Re: Does mailman work well for large lists?

[Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users]

On 2/26/21 3:29 PM, david.bar...@mail.com wrote:

Good day,


Hi,

Looking for a solution to have about 50-200 lists for subscribers. 
Any good examples of mailman being used for 50+ lists you can share 
for me to see? Trying to see the feasibility of implementing a solution 
in next 90 days.


I don't think the number of lists is as important as the number of 
subscribers on each list.


I have seen many installations of Mailman (v2.x) that have had lots of 
lists.


I believe some of the Mailman lists that I'm subscribed to have hundreds 
of subscribers.


Would like to see a working one, where a user would go to a site, 
and pick a list to subscribe.


Sorry, I don't know of anything off hand.


Is mailman easy to setup and maintain?


I've found that Mailman 2.x is quite easy to set up and maintain. 
Though, I don't think Mailman 2.x is good for a greenfield deployment. 
I don't have any experience with Mailman 3.x.  Though I have heard that 
3.x has different requirements than 2.x, some of them non-trivial.



Windows or Linux server recommended?


My vote is for Linux (or another Unix varient).


Thank you.


You're welcome.



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[Mailman-Users] Re: Does mailman work well for large lists?

[Mark Sapiro]

On 2/26/21 2:29 PM, david.bar...@mail.com wrote:
> Good day,
> Looking for a solution to have about 50-200 lists for subscribers.  Any good 
> examples of mailman being used for 50+ lists you can share for me to see? 
> Trying to see 
> the feasibility of implementing a solution in next 90 days.
> 
> Would like to see a working one, where a user would go to a site, and pick a 
> list to subscribe.


See  for Mailman 2 supported
lists. This list used to be one of those before it migrated to Mailman 3
 (for support of the list - the list
is still about Mailman 2).


> Is mailman easy to setup and maintain?
> 
> Windows or Linux server recommended?


Definitely Linux or some other *nix OS over Windows. Many Linux distros
have drop in Mailman 2.1 packages, but both Mailman 2.1 and Python 2
upon which it depends are end of life, although many if not most sites
are still using it.

Mailman 3 is significantly more difficult to install, although there is
a fairly functional, albeit out of date, package for Debian/Ubuntu.

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