Re: [Evolution] mailings to large email lists

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley attbi com>]

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 11:53, Not Zed wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 05:29, Devorah wrote:
> > Hello.  I want to email to my customer list of about 300.00.
>
> > I tried copying all address into the BCC section, but it just froze the 
> > machine.
> >
> > Then I was tolk (on Monkey chat) that I should make a new  Contact List. 
> >  I should highlight each address and "drag" it into the list.  This 
> > caused 2 problems.       1)  The list allows for duplicate entries.   
> >                                                         2)  The list is 
> > not alphabetized, so it's impossible to see who is in it other than 
> > reading through the whole list.
> >
> > What is the solution?  Is evolution able to handle such large lists?
>
> It froze the whole machine?  Or just evolution?

I suspect that it just hung evolution.  Actually, I don't think it
hung.  A few days ago I tried doing something with the contact list that
you get when you hit the To: button, for example, and I noticed that
Evolution was _really_ slow bringing up the dialog, and it consumed a
lot of CPU during that time.  I was only looking at about 50 addresses. 
I didn't spend much time tracking it down either, so I may be way off
anyway.

Dan

> Without knowing what happened or where it happened (e.g. a backtrace of
> locked processes), its hard to know whats up.
>
> I dont see any basic reason why it shouldn't work, although the cut and
> paste or dnd idea sounds like a real pain.
>
>
>
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