Due to self imposed list limitations already present in IMail, you might consider using a stand-alone list server for the purpose you outlined below. Listar running on say RedHat 7.2 would easily meet your needs, and the custom interface and scripts would be easier to create and maintain. IMail itself would choke if too many of those users decided to use their lists at the same time, but Listar with Postfix as the MTA would easily process anything those users could send it, or at least up to your hardware's capabilities. In this case the time spent to develop this solution might be wasted when you find IMail choking when trying to process the lists.
PostfixGate A member supported Anti-Spam Database for Postfix, Sendmail, IMail, and many other *nix MTAs. www.postfixgate.com ******************** Tel: 509-344-2001 Fax: 509-226-0710 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Imail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:40 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] I think my post was overlooked because someone appeared to answer it > So here it is again. > > Hi. > > We have Imail 6.06 running an external db (SQL Server 2000). Imail is > part of an entire web-based application written in ASP that has, among > other things, a contact database. We want to allow our users to be able > to create lists of their business contacts. Once a List has been > created, the user should be able to send an email to everyone on that > list. We decided we would use Imail's built-in mailing lists for this. > So we've created the lists where we capture the email addresses of > everyone and we can write out those addresses to the right file in the > Imail directory so it creates the mailing list. BUT, it seems that in > order to work, there is another file that contains a list of all the > lists that we have to write to. This wouldn't be a big deal, except > that we're worried about contention. Since we have 400+ users, and > since each user essenitally can create their own mailing lists, it's > possible that multiple users would be writing to that one file > simultaneously. We're wondering if someone has a work-around for this, > an API or something that allows multiple users to create lists > simultaneously. > > Thanks for your help. > > Kevin > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
