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Searching for some (best practice) examples of using CiviMail with really large lists (> 10'000 recipients) I've only come across this paragraph in the book over at flossmanuals:

The configuration described works fine for mailings to up to about 10,000 people. If you plan on sending email to hundreds of thousands of contacts, you should benchmark several options and consider a dedicated SMTP server. This more complex configuration is outside the scope of this book.

(http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/SystemConfiguration/)

So does anybody know of an example / organisation that has used or is using CiviMail for sending out mass mailings to more than 10'000 recipients?

Cheers,

Chris

yes quite a few orgs use it to send large mailings including wikimedia, political campaigns, creative commons, and fsf.

The main issue (IMO) is whos doing, managing and monitoring the SMTP delivery

lobo

Just out of curiosity: Who is "we"?

The authors of the book, check the credits/copyright at the end.

Not sure I remember more specifically who wrote that part, was a book sprint and after 4 days of non-stop writing, things get a bit unclear about who wrote what, who came later and edited...

X+

@Xavier: Thanks for pointing me towards the obvious. :-) ...and yes, I can imagine that after the book sprint things got a bit hazy. ;-) The main point is, though, that the book IS here, isn't it?

@lobo That sounds like more good news, too! Hopefully, I'll then be able to contribute to the use case section,too!

Cheers,

Chris