Hi Shahar, hi Dave! Thank you very much for your quick and informative responses!
Monday, April 1, 2002, 3:24:24 PM, you wrote: S> I sent once about 900 recipients and The But was freeze. Was on P133, S> 64MB RAM. Never tried later. Since then I use a mass mailing software S> that go directly to the Database and merges the data from there. That does not sound like The Bat! is really capable of handling such large amounts of messages. Did you use mass mailing or direct BCC? And what software do you use now? I have only experience with majordomo and ezmlm but my favorite would be a fit-the-purpose Windows application which is stable enough to handle many users (+ automated error-handling as well as un- / subscriptions) and not a configured down mailinglist manager which requires a -ix os. S> Have no idea about the BCC field limitation. No RFC I know of states any limitation (ok, it was a rather quick check) but I suppose most MTA's have a limitation of some kind. DiPA> support told me I would "blow the bcc buffer", The result was DiPA> E-mails were lost in Cyberspace with no bounce just receivers DiPA> never received. That's exactly the scenario I certainly do not want for my newsletter. :*) DiPA> If I send using my ISP (Cox cable) it takes an hour or so one DiPA> message at a time, typically about 60k in size each. For the DiPA> last month or so I started using PointCast Server Software. Well - that should not be a limitation in my case. I have only ADSL but a provider (www.t-online.de) who is featuring a quite good smtp relay which is available only for it's customers but not very critical about speed. Straight 128 kbit/s + a small message size should do the job very well. DiPA> Both ways using Bat to produce via mass mailing template 800 DiPA> (actually was 795) separate messages instead of bcc, solved the DiPA> "missing in space" problem. The time required to send using ISP DiPA> as smtp or my computer using Point Cast is about the same since DiPA> I have to rerun Point Cast 4-5 times to overcome time outs. But DiPA> I like Point Cast since I have more control and can see what is DiPA> going on. Hmm. Do you think that The Bat!'s maximum amount of emails stored in a folder is limited in some fashion? Anyway I think there should be a macro for mass mailing in a feature version. I really do not like the approach to ... 1. edit a file with the newsletter body 2. select all receivers of the specific message 3. select the mass mailing option from the Addressbook These are waaay to many steps to make this feature foolproof. DiPA> Good luck Thank you very much for sharing your experiences with me! Best regards from Berlin, rgs/joern -- ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
