Mailman List Limits

[ld9]

I've read a few entries in this forum that states TCH provides quite a few email options. One that I'm intrested in is using mailman. I'm confused as to what is the resonable limits for using mailman and the definition of TCH's term for size. i.e. TCH only supports small maillist.

 

Does that mean a list with 10, 20, 100 or 1000 email ids?

 

How active are the lists allowed to be? i.e. 1 message per hour, day, month, year?

 

I don't understand how I would control the queueing. Is there a control panel setting for it?

[bellringr]

Welcome. You might find this thread helpful.

[ld9]

Welcome.   You might find this thread helpful.

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Thanks, I did read that thread yesterday and got confused. I was looking for something more along the lines of how other limits are described on the site. For instance, package X has X MB of drive space, X bandwidth, X databases. I was hoping there was something along those lines for maillists. Is 100 email users on a list considered small or large? Sending 1 or 2 messages a day/week to that group considered small or large. Is this the wrong forum to ask these questions? I don't want to worry about who on the list would get emails or breaking it up.

[TCH-Rob]

As best I can answer I wouldnt call a hundred users too big, more mid size. 1 or 2 email a day to the entire group isnt a huge amount and "should" be ok. You will not be able to send 100 out in one shot though.

[ld9]

As best I can answer I wouldnt call a hundred users too big, more mid size.  1 or 2 email a day to the entire group isnt a huge amount and "should" be ok.  You will not be able to send 100 out in one shot though.

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Does the system automatically queue the messages? I don't care if it takes it a little while. I'm just not sure what will happen when a message gets sent to a list with 100 people on the list.

[TCH-Rick]

The system will not automatically queue the messages. For a list of over 50 or so people I would recommend using a different script that allows batch send. The thread mentioned by bellringr has more information on DadaMail which does allow batch send.

[bellringr]

You can have as many mail lists as you want. You are only really limited by your bandwidth (since I doubt mail lists of that size are going to have any real impact on your disk space).

 

I don't use Dada mail because I don't have over 50 people on mine, but I believe I can limit how big the e-mails are that are sent by members on the list. (I haven't tweaked the settings for a while.) I would guess Dada has this feature as well.

[TCH-Don]

Yes Dadamail has a batch mode for a list

where you can set it to send say 10 e-mails per minute

and be fine.