I've heard of problems with a setting greater than 2000!
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] No. of recepients in Mail list
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> >I am managing Imail list with a subscriber base of about 3000 at the
> >moment and this will grow in future. To send mail to all the recepients
> >shall I set no of recepients to 120 as per the IMAIL Guide(total # of
> >recepeitns/25) or I can put figure like 5000. Will it crash the sever or
> >create any problem with the smtp que?
>
> If you put in 5,000 recipients per message, then there will be only 1 SMTP
> process to send them all out. That means you will be sending them all in
> serial, rather than in parallel. It would take a lot longer to send out
> the mail that way.
>
> -Scott
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