Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!amdcad!sun!rose!nowicki From: nowicki%rose@Sun.COM (Bill Nowicki) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: How do you handle large mailing lists? Message-ID: <23828@sun.uucp> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 14:06:20 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.23828 Posted: Mon Jul 20 14:06:20 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 01:33:28 EDT References: <3600@felix.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: na Lines: 14 Summary: Which sendmail? Xref: mnetor comp.mail.misc:429 comp.unix.wizards:3330 In article <3600@felix.UUCP>, zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon) writes: > > I have a relatively large mailing list, info-ultrix, which > has outgrown the alias facility in sendmail. Most early versions of sendmail had bugs and performance problems with very large mailing lists. Here at Sun we have a list with four thousand people on it, and several with over three thousand. Usually each of these gets a few messages per day. Needless to say, we fixed many bugs with long lists. We fed bug fixes back to Berkeley, and the 4.3BSD sendmail is much better than the 4.2BSD one. I am biased, but I think the SunOS 3.4 (and SunOS 4.0!) sendmails are even better. -- WIN