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From: Angelo Turetta <ATuretta@stylo.it>
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Subject: Large mailing lists: mailer optimization
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:09:32 +0100
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I remember a discussion (it was more than a year ago) about the
optimisation of the freebsd mailing lists.

When using Majordomo as a list manager, you end up with a single message
being sent to all the users in the list. If some server is slow to
reply, sendmail takes forever to process the queue, because it cannot
proceed in parallel with the other recipients.

There should be some tools to break the huge recipient lists into a
number of smaller ones, thus parallelizing a great deal of work. Too bad
I cannot remember any name....

Any pointers ?

Please Cc: replies directly to me.

Angelo Turetta.