Re: [exim] A couple of news items

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Author: Dominic Hargreaves
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] A couple of news items
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 06:19:46PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:

> The British news has been full of stories about the road pricing petition
> this week. The Prime Minister's petition web site was developed by a
> charity called My Society who make online tools that help people to
> participate in politics - see http://www.mysociety.org/projects for a
> list. After the petition closed on Tuesday night, about 1.8 million
> messages were sent to those who signed the petition and asked to be sent
> the Government's response. Exim was the MTA.


Do you have a reference for this piece of information? I do know that
MySociety wrote their own optimised SMTP sending daemon, but I don't for
sure whether they used it for sending out the responses (but I have
heard rumours that they did).

https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/getfile/mysociety/pet/bin/petemaild?v=1.115

Cheers,

Dominic.

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