Re: [cobalt-developers] Sendmail vs. mail()

["Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)" <listonly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 10/4/02 1:00 PM, Brad Endsley stated:

> Majordomo maybe? Or something like Mojo mail?
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mojomail/

I am not a majordomo guru, Thom is and maybe he can answer. When we set up a
client with Majordomo as an announcement/newsletter, we found that people
signed up others that never wanted in. Also any bounced mail came back to us
and not the client. I know you can go in and edit the majordomo conf. But
allowing clients would be another story.
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I have a small mailing list of about 10,000 members. It takes about 2
> hours for the newsletter to be sent. Right now the newsletter is being
> sent using the mail() command.
> 
Is this list if put public able to have confirmation of subscription?
> 
> 1. How can I make it faster?
> 2. could other PHP/MySQL newsletter scripts be easily modified to work
> with whatever solution is best for us?
> 3. is Qmail or MailMan from www.gnu.org a good solution?

We prefer Mailman. Once you do the initial setup of the list, the client
controls everything else. Plus bounced mail can have rules set to delete
after so many times, requires confirmation email, sends out a monthly mail
to remind, you could actually put an ad in that as well as many use the
Mailman to run lists. This here list as an example. And I know it handles a
ton. Your box will decide the limit.

I posted a how to just the other day for a Raq4.
> 
> I'm not that familiar with this so any advice on which direction to go
> is appreciated! Thanks!
> Reginald

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