dbmail@dbmail.org writes: >I think some other people have more experience here, but my server moves >on >average 5,000 messages a day. All of this is handled through IMAP too, so >lots of moves and renames, and deletes. Just run your purge every day.
done stress-testing.. on a PII-200 linux box DBMAIL and postfix is good enough for about 10 mails/sec... see SMTP: (postfix -> dbmail) time,messages,data(K),errors,connections,SSL connections 02:08,770,3959,0,770,0 02:09,730,4053,0,731,0 02:10,671,3553,0,671,0 02:11,721,3961,0,721,0 02:12,733,3969,0,732,0 02:13,746,4018,0,746,0 description:: 02: no idea 08, sec 770, msgs 3959, data in KB 0, errors 770 connections ,0 SSL-connections POP3: time,messages,data(K),errors,connections,SSL connections,IMAP connections 02:26,130,844,0,1,0,0 02:27,163,841,0,0,0,0 02:28,136,818,0,0,0,0 02:29,150,840,0,0,0,0 02:30,153,813,0,0,0,0 02:31,144,843,0,0,0,0 02:32,143,790,0,0,0,0 02:33,147,825,0,0,0,0 02:34,152,836,0,0,0,0 02:35,145,803,0,0,0,0 02:36,154,801,0,0,0,0 02:37,144,811,0,0,0,0 02:38,147,836,0,0,0,0 02:39,141,789,0,0,0,0 50 pop per second, 4 mio/day... as said on a PII-200 MHz. imagine this on a multiprocessor-machine :))) -- Wulff D. Heiss, CTO Office Vienna Ullmannstr. 3, A-1150 Wien Tel.: +43-1-9610415/30 Fax: +43-1-9610415/10