Hi Jon, Thanks to you and everyone for your answers. I think I've got more or less the information I wanted. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
-Rob On 24 Dec 2002 at 11:58, Jon Carnes wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 11:01, Rob Jolliffe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 24 Dec 2002 at 10:30, Jon Carnes wrote: > > > > > The way Mailman works by default is that it will break the message out > > > by domain. Thus it will send one message to each domain - up to a > > > maximum of 100 folks at one domain, this is set in > > > ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py. > > > > Thanks for the reply. You say "by default." Does this mean that it can be > > configured to NOT break messages into the domains and let the SMTP server do > > that instead? > > > > Thanks > > > > -Rob > > In this case, the "non-default" is to break out the messages by > individual sender (what they now call personalization mode). > > For your use, default should work okay. Also, you should setup Sendmail > (or whatever MTA you are using) to use your ISP's Mail service as a > "smart relay". That way, mailman will break out all the messages via > domain and send one message to each domain. > > Each Mailing list message will be dropped off with your MTA (the local > Sendmail install). Sendmail will see that the messages are not local > and forward them to your ISP's Mail service. Your ISP will receive the > messages and do all the heavy lifting of DNS look-ups and different Mail > server communications. > > Enjoy! > > Jon Carnes > > ----------------------------------------- Robert Jolliffe President, Creative Manufacturing Solutions Technology Partner, Dynac Inc. www.creativemfg.ca www.dynactools.ca tel (519)585-7524 ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
