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> I had to send out 28000 messages last week (spamming the entire
> university, don't ask). I just had a little script which did
> sendmail -oi -odq address < messagefile
> for every address (where "sendmail" is, of course, a link to exim :-).
> Then I had about 3 concurrent "exim -q" queuerunner processes going
> through the queue and I'd manually start up another whenever one got
> through to the end. They went at about 10 per second and there weren't
> any problems. With 7000 you should be fine. The only potential pitfall
> is if they can't get shipped out quickly enough: mine were going
> through to our mail hubs which took them off my hands pretty quickly.
We did lists of some 10000 of our customers at a time and didn't notice.
Should be fine.
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Dan Kappus