At 2:54 PM -0700 2004-12-16, Christopher Hammond wrote:
1) is qmail an acceptable MTA for a production environment? if not ... any recommendations?
It is not my choice, and I believe that the integration between qmail and Mailman may be lacking in some areas. I know what the integration is like between Mailman and either postfix or sendmail, and both of those should definitely be able to handle the MTA load, if configured properly. I've done millions of mail messages per day on properly configured machines.
2) can mailman, running on a dedicated machine ( pIII with 512 Mb RAM ), handle 30-75k contacts?
Properly configured, I don't see that this would be a problem. However, you should read <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.024.htp>.
I can tell you that your disk subsystem, your OS & filesystem configuration, and your amount and configuration of memory are going to be critical factors in determining whether or not you will be able to make this work with this class of hardware. You can do it if you know what you're doing, but it will take some work to put all the right pieces together in the right way.
3) does mailmain provide a more detailed subscriber form whereas I could use it to capture the demographic data of our subscribers? (ie., physical address, telephone number, etc )
No. Moreover, there is no place to store this information. You'd need to make some fairly significant modifications to Mailman to account for the added information you want.
4) is mailman actually what I should be using for this?
It sounds to me like what you really want is a Customer Relationship Manager system. See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.018.htp>.
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