How many subscribers? majordomo uses alias include files to contain its
users, so I think it doesn't scale well to large numbers of users...
www.listar.org "clones" ListServ on the other hand.
I would recommend Postfix for high-speed mail delivery.
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 01:00:46AM +0800, Omar Cromwell Mercado wrote:
> This will be a bit off-topic (albeit still linux) but i'd appreciate your
> comments/suggestions re: mailing list managers.
>
> We'll be operating a mailing list server for an Internet advertising
> company that expects a load of around 500-800 messages a day. We're
> currently evaluating majordomo and listserv and was surprised of
> listserv's $7,900 price tag excluding support and their lsmtp package,
> which when included could jump to close to $20K! so we're
> definitely going for the ubiquitous majordomo. anyways, one thing that
> management is concerned about is the security of majordomo. Can you share
> your insights on this? Perhaps those among you who operate large lists
> could give out your ideas.. i've always thought that majordomo is only as
> secure as the system's mail server (sendmail). So if we keep sendmail
> secure enough, then majordomo also is. or am i right? i'd surely
> appreciate comments. btw, the mail server will be linux/sendmail.
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