Re: [cobalt-users] Email list hosting

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Todd Kirk" <tkirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a client at the moment that wants me to host a mailing list for his
> company so he can send one email with a .CSV file attachment to the list
and
> then my server sends to 1500 recipients.
>
> What would you recommend the best method to do this is? Should I buy extra
> software or use the cobalt mailing list in the GUI? Does the GUI have a
> limit to the number of email address it can have in the list? (the list
may
> end up being 5000 in the near future).

I don't like to touch the Cobalt majordomo software b/c I don't want to
break its ability to be used from the GUI, but I use majordomo from my own
additional installations of it.  For large lists you may want to look into
using bulkmailer with majordomo (a search on google should get you plenty of
info) since it speeds up delivery.  mj2, the development version of
majordomo has a bulk mail handler built in.  I'm told mj2 is pretty stable,
though YMMV.  There are other mailing list managers that might suit your
needs better so I suggest subscribing to the list-managers list at
www.greatcircle.com and searching that list's archives.

> One point of interest is the client has their own webserver for their
> website on small bandwidth, how would I use their domain for the email
> address for the list in this case? Do I simply make the MX record point to
> me and host all their email??

Yes.

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