first off -- thanks for both your responses.
second, re: >Mailman sorts the target domains and then batches the list per the >SMTP_MAX_RCPTS as previously noted. Due to this target domains will be >clustered. Depending on whether the number of addresses within a >specific target domain is modulo SMTP_MAX_RCPTS, there may or may not be from the code i found in SMTPDirect, the only sorting is by tld - com net org edu and 'other' in the chunk function is there another function doing some sort of sorting i'm missing? I dont know much about postfix -- my only frame of reference right now is some experience w/the mail::bulkmail in perl that i mentioned earlier -- which would submit to smtp by secondary domains. i think that either you're sayingan intelligent mta like postfix will do that all inhouse (say i submit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- one and two will go in the same envelope/queuefile and three till go in another) or we're talking about totally different things _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py