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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Mark Hartley <mark@work.drapple.com>
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Subject: Re: Mail server (Sendmail) benchmarking
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Mark Hartley wrote:

...
> many emails I can reasonably expect one machine running FreeBSD 4.4-SECURE (or
> whatever that branch is being called now) with Sendmail to be able to send in a
> day.  The machine(s) I'm looking at will be P3-933Mhz with 1GB of RAM.  My main
> question is whether I will need to throw more than one machine at this.
...

  Postfix would an order of magnitude faster sending e-mail than Sendmail
on the same hardware.

Tom


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