On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:28 +0000, Alain Williams wrote: > I am adding something to an exim config that could result in a large number > (20,000) email addresses. It is a secondary college and the ability to > mail to a class or all students is wanted. The expansion will be done > through class-list lookup in a mysql database. Several other complications > of course (who can do it, don't auto-create new cyrus accounts, ...). > > Is this something that exim (on a reasonably powerful Linux box) could handle > ? > I can't see anything in the documentation that talks about this.
Exim will process the recipients of the message serially, so it may take quite a while for the last student to get his copy. but Exim certainly won't have a problem with it, nor make a problem for its host. -- Kjetil T. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
