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[Marcel <address@concealed>]

On 24.01.03 09:39:41 -0800, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
> My honest experience, in the same scenario, is that Sympa chokes and dies,
> mostly from having to process the bounces. And it does so in a way that is
> very non-transparent and messy to deal with.

Well, yes. That's the problem with the current
system, too. Sending out mail is one thing,
handling the bounces another. Last time it just
died with a load around 30. That's why I was
thinking of switching to postfix, too. Sendmail
is not quite the thing I like to deal with under
such circumstances...

Would it be possible to have the bounces go to a
different machine?

And apart from that: Can sympa handle the mail sending?

Thx, Marcel



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcel" <address@concealed>
> To: <address@concealed>
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:08 AM
> Subject: [sympa-users] Requirements for 500.000 subscribers
> 
> 
> > We have several somewhat larger lists with
> > 200,000 to 500,000 subscribers, growing.
> >
> > These are "announcement only newletter-type " lists
> > (no, we are not sending out spam, these are regular
> > customers on an opt-in basis).
> >
> > Anyone with experience with this number of subscribers?
> > What hardware requirements should be expected for
> > Sympa?
> >
> > TIA, Marcel
> >

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