"SarrCom.com - Reginald" wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a small mailing list of about 10,000 members. It takes about 2 hours for the >newsletter to be sent. Right now the newsletter is being sent using the mail() >command.
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean the "mail" command you call from the command prompt? If so, that's just a front end to sendmail. > We tried installing http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net but we did not succeed to send >mails by smtp and sendmail didn't really speed things up. We're on a RaQ 4i now but >will swith to a RaQ 550 somewhere (:-) this month. There are ways to speed up sendmail, but there's nothing wrong with 5,000 per hour, either. In fact we often send email even slower than that, so as to keep other services on the box running responsively. > 1. How can I make it faster? I think the software I'm thinking of is called bulk_mailer or something like that. What it does is sort all the mailing addresses, and then sends one email with multiple recipient addresses wherever possible. Another thing you can do is change the sendmail configuration so it'll continue to send email even when it's using a large amount of server resources. However this could impact your server. > 2. could other PHP/MySQL newsletter scripts be easily modified to work with whatever >solution is best for us? Almost anything can pipe through bulk_mailer. > 3. is Qmail or MailMan from www.gnu.org a good solution? Qmail is a complete replacement for sendmail. I sure wouldn't want to try doing that on a RaQ. Mailman is a wonderful solution for mailing lists, but it still sends mail through your sendmail program. Is your list just an announcement list? If so, then the best way to do it is to pipe it to sendmail, using a file alias as a mailing list. But if sendmail's default settings make it too slow for you, either change some of the default sendmail.cf settings or use bulk_mailer first, or both. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting nobaloney.net, P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: +1 909 778-9980 * fax: +1 909 548-9484 _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
