On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:13:11 -0800 (PST)
> From: Gordon Tetlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jesper Skriver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: qmail IO--qmail vs postfix competition
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jesper Skriver wrote:
>
> > 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 ?
>
> Yep, that's 4 million unique emails. Actually, I should qualify that, it
> took 4 hours for the mail servers to accept and queue them. The outgoing
> probably took a bit longer, but from the way the queues stacked up, it
> probably wasn't more than 5 hours to get all the deliverable messages out
> (except for excite.com which wasn't taking mail at the time).
>
> -gordon
>
when you say "about 30 mailers" are you talking about 30 separate
machines?
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