We have at least 2 customers who have very active forums.

Recently they have attempted to mail all of the register users.

One of the forums have nearly 2000 registered users. Their attempt to do the mailing came to our attention immediately and led to a rather lengthy discussion on our forum.

We use exim.

My question is what are other busy forums doing to meet the needs of users like this.

We are going to run into this again and would like others opinions


TIA

Jim
VS Hosting

What concerns do you have with them mailing their users?

If its load there are exim configurations to slow down the rate

Rus

It is the load it puts on the server and since we have it configured to 200 mails per hour the mailing of 2000 ties up the que for quite a long time.