On 6/3/11 4:56 AM, Khalil Abbas wrote: > > SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to only 5 in mailman resulted in a huge number of > messages generated by mailman that halts the servers, that's why I every > hour stop mailman then stop postfix then reboot the servers to free up > the memory and continue distributing the mail..
What problem were you trying to solve by setting SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 5? Maybe you should consider raising it or letting it go back to its default of 500 if things worked better then. > my question is, is this a good solution? or should I split them into > very small lists then send the same message every hour after making sure > that the servers finished distributing the mail for the previous lists? See the last paragraph of the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/j4A9>. The throttling patch may help. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California Better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
