On May 29, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Anil Jangity wrote: > How does mailman scale to large lists? What about 200,000 members or more? I > know a large part of this has to do with the performance of the email > infrastructure.
Questions like this are pretty well addressed by the FAQ Wiki. See <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030518>, <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030582>, and <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030621>. How far you want to go basically depends on how much work you're willing to put into the Mailman and MTA infrastructure in order to make it happen. > Are there plans to make use of LDAP for storing Lists information > (lists+members+lists configuration)? You'd need an LDAP member adapter -- basically, an LDAP database interface driver for Python. There was some experimental work that was done in this area for Mailman 2.1.x, but I don't think it ever got formally included in the code base. This sort of thing should be relatively easy to do with Mailman 3.x, once that ships and is stable. > Right now, we have corporate Groups in LDAP, and members in that group (e.g. > uniqueMember). When a email is sent to a Group, we have some scripts that > will do LDAP lookups and then expand to those specific email addresses and > then re-distribute emails to these individuals. > > These are internal Groups. I was debating the plusses and minuses of using a > real mailing list (mailman) for this purpose. There are people who are already doing this sort of thing with Mailman today, but it requires a bit of hacking on the code to put all the pieces together. We do not (yet) have an out-of-the-box solution in this space, at least not that I know of. -- Brad Knowles <b...@shub-internet.org> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ------------------------------------------------------ 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
