Re: [exim] [exim-announce] Exim list changes

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Moritz Wilhelmy
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] [exim-announce] Exim list changes

On 5 Sep 2011, at 22:04, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote:

> Is VERP really such a big issue? I thought it's a lot cheaper if you let
> exim do it, rather than mailman?


Its a lot cheaper on (queue) disk space, but still costs you bandwidth and transmission time. I have not tested our lists recently to see how many of the deliveries were being bundled together - I did do this a number of years back and it had a much bigger effect than I expected, and there are now a *lot* of people with gmail/google apps domains, all of which end up at the same SMTP servers. So this may well incur an order of magnitude increase in bandwidth usage for mail.

    Nigel.


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