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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:42:15 +0100
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
Cc:        Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: qmail IO--qmail vs postfix competition
Message-ID:  <20010220234215.C87801@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102200116510.1377-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>; from gordont@bluemtn.net on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:22:57AM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0102191517420.24075-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102200116510.1377-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>

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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:22:57AM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> My company (online greeting cards) sent our 4 million emails in 4 hours
> using a cluster of about 30 mailers with qmail on FreeBSD (old version of
> FreeBSD at that). That averages to 16,666 mail messages per minute or
> about 500 per minute per server. The best part was the servers weren't
> breaking a sweat.

Is that 4 million different emails, or a much lower number of mails with
multiple recipients ?

/Jesper

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