Re: [Mailman-Developers] GNU Mailman Site Redesign

2008-05-12 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:34:30PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: Hi Andrew, thanks for taking a look at this. It's not a high priority for me, but I know the FSF is interested in this. Noted; I haven't been looking any further at the task, and don't expect to have time for this at all until

[Mailman-Developers] Regarding Handlers/SMTPDirect.py and chunkify

2008-05-12 Thread Stefan Förster
Hello there, I don't really know how to start this topic, I'm fairly new to Mailman and I don't speak anything but the most basic Python, but I am unsure whether the function def chunkify(recips, chunksize): which is defined in Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py might not have an adverse effect on

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Regarding Handlers/SMTPDirect.py and chunkify

2008-05-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Stefan Förster wrote: I don't really know how to start this topic, I'm fairly new to Mailman and I don't speak anything but the most basic Python, but I am unsure whether the function def chunkify(recips, chunksize): which is defined in Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py might not have an adverse

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Regarding Handlers/SMTPDirect.py and chunkify

2008-05-12 Thread Stefan Förster
* Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Förster wrote: I don't think I'm qualified to discuss my concern (which involves VERP delivery using a specific MTAs VERP implementation and a highly I/O saturated mail server) on this list. See

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Regarding Handlers/SMTPDirect.py and chunkify

2008-05-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Stefan Förster wrote: Now, the reason this change was so effective was that the number of (disk) I/O operations was greatly reduced: Where a posting to a list with 25000 subscribers would inevitably lead to the creation of 25000 queue files (even more if message content and control information

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Regarding Handlers/SMTPDirect.py and chunkify

2008-05-12 Thread Stefan Förster
Am 12.05.2008 um 23:20 schrieb Mark Sapiro: I understand what you are saying, but I wonder what the real world difference would be. As currently written, chunkify returns at most 4 partially filled chunks. Granted, 4 is significantly bigger than one, but given that the MTA is VERPing the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Regarding Handlers/SMTPDirect.py and chunkify

2008-05-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Stefan Förster wrote: Am 12.05.2008 um 23:20 schrieb Mark Sapiro: I understand what you are saying, but I wonder what the real world difference would be. As currently written, chunkify returns at most 4 partially filled chunks. Granted, 4 is significantly bigger than one, but given that the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Regarding Handlers/SMTPDirect.py and chunkify

2008-05-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 12, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: This predates my experience with Mailman. It is based on the statistics provided by Chuq and outlined in the FAQ. It's true that these statistics may only be applicable to lists with primarily US