From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 8: 3:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.akalink.com (akalink.com [64.23.81.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAD6037B43E for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 08:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfortin@akalink.com) Received: (qmail 35505 invoked from network); 19 May 2001 15:01:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO node00) (64.23.81.14) by akalink.com with SMTP; 19 May 2001 15:01:13 -0000 Message-ID: <007101c0e074$96cfc1c0$020a10ac@node00> Reply-To: "Jonathan Fortin" From: "Jonathan Fortin" To: References: Subject: Re: clustering Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:01:06 -0400 Organization: Akalink Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well one tuned box can do a minimum of atleast 200 * 86400 = 17,280,000 (17 million) emails per day. which would be 720,000 mails per hour depending on the type of connection and latency you got. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ask Bjoern Hansen" To: "Luke Kearney" Cc: "Free BSD" Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 6:41 AM Subject: Re: clustering > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Luke Kearney wrote: > > > The mail servers will need to handle up to 100000 mails in one mail out so > > am thinking to go with Qmail unless anyone can give me some better > > alternatives. > > One welltuned box with qmail and dnscache should easily be able to > send out 100000 mails per hour. That's less than 30 per second... > > > > - ask > > -- > ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do(); > more than 100M impressions per day, http://valueclick.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message