It is possible that Bluehost is limiting the amount of messages that are
sent out from your account per hour. This is called smtp throttling and it
is a common practice amount hosting companies. Another issue is that your
mailing lists could simply be on a very busy server that is not able to keep
up with mail delivery. What is troubling is the answer you received from
Bluehost which reveals their ignorance about mailman.
" Then they suggested I find a special
email list provider. Is there such a thing?"
Yes there is. We offer a special service for those who run mailman mailing
lists. You can read more about our service at
http://www.emwd.com/mailman.html.Kind regards,
Brian Carpenter
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EMWD - Executive Officer
-----Original Message-----
From: mailman-users-bounces+brian=emwd.com at python.org
[mailto:mailman-users-bounces+brian=emwd.com at python.org] On Behalf Of
wittygal
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:24 PM
To: 'Mark Sapiro'
Cc: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit to the Number of Subscribers for
eachlist?
Well, it seemed like a load of bull. Then they suggested I find a special
email list provider. Is there such a thing?
And how would I find it. You see I am doing this as a charity thing for
about 5 online email groups for debtorsanonymous.org
I thought this should be a no sweat thing since I supposedly can have
unlimited email lists under my premium subscription.
Thanks for the info. I am going to try to get back with them with regard to
this and point them to the url in question for the faqs. Does anyone have a
problem with me copying select portions of your emails on this subject?
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro at value.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:29 AM
To: Brad Knowles; wittygal; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit to the Number of Subscribers for
eachlist?
Brad Knowles wrote:
On 8/29/07, wittygal wrote:
They tell me that
phplist doesn't have the problems mailman does.
That's a total load of bull.
Agreed.
First, phplist only does one-way (announcement) lists so if you want a
discussion list, phplist is not an option.
Second, if phplist on bluehost is able to deliver mail to many
recipients faster than Mailman on bluehost, this is a result of
conscious or unconscious configuration decisions made by bluehost in
the installation of Mailman, phplist and their MTAs. It is not because
of any inherent superiority of phplist.