Loading a list of email addresses and performance
I'm planning on converting from ezmlm to Smartlist. How do I go about loading a text file of addresses into the list database? With ezmlm, I can just do: cat addresses.txt | xargs ezmlm-sub ~/DIR Is it something similar with Smartlist? Also, what email server does everyone recommend for maximum performance? I'm thinking Postfix or zmailer. Right now, I'm using qmail+ezmlm, and qmail spends A LOT of time processing queued mail because I have several lists with half a million subscribers or more. Basically, the smartlist server needs to just pass outgoing mail to my smarthost, but bounces and stuff are obviously going to come back to the Smartlist box. How does the performance of Smartlist compare with EZMLM? ---------- Jay Austad Network Administrator CBS Marketwatch 612.817.1271 austad@marketwatch.com <mailto:austad@marketwatch.com> http://cbs.marketwatch.com http://www.bigcharts.com
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:05:10PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote:
I'm planning on converting from ezmlm to Smartlist. How do I go about loading a text file of addresses into the list database? With ezmlm, I can just do: cat addresses.txt | xargs ezmlm-sub ~/DIR Is it something similar with Smartlist?
cat addresses.txt >>~list/LISTNAME/dist
Also, what email server does everyone recommend for maximum performance?
I like Exim; there are convenient recipes to avoid all that mucking about with aliases files, and in my experience it's an excellent high-performance mailer. (I recommend looking at the exim-users archives at www.exim.org; there are quite a few people using Exim in intense mailing-list environments.) Nobody seems to have a solid performance comparison; it's too dependent on other factors. Roger
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:05:10PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote:
Also, what email server does everyone recommend for maximum performance? I'm thinking Postfix or zmailer. Right now, I'm using qmail+ezmlm, and
Postfix is surely a good choice. It's stable, fast, scalable and easy to configure.
How does the performance of Smartlist compare with EZMLM?
I don't know any people who used both with big lists. Let us know about your experiences. Werner
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