In the linux-kernel -list subscribers domain popularity analysis I got following results:
2101 gmail.com 49 googlemail.com 46 gmx.de 41 redhat.com 33 yahoo.com 23 suse.de 22 gmx.net 21 comcast.net The gmail is so popular, that with their somewhat rudimentary inbound MTA software this kind of recipient masses take horrible time to feed in... Mere 0.5-0.7 seconds per recipient, but.. So far we have tried to feed all recipients in one go per message - that is sending 2100 RCPT TO -lines in one swoop, and the system has taken some 15-25 minutes per message to feed it to gmail. We are running the delivery 20 streams in parallel, so it isn't quite as bad as it sounds.. I do have one thing that gmail could enable to speed up the message delivery (a lot!) from VGER and other list delivery sources. That single magic needed thing is called "PIPELINING" support at gmail's inbound MX servers. With suitably well behaving smtpserver it is really trivial to implement, all real difficult magic is at the sending side smtp client codes. Once upon a time I implemented that thing for a trans-atlantic SMTP fanout feed -- message delivery time became slashed from hundreds of RTT delays to mere few.. /Matti Aarnio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/