On 03/23/2011 03:06 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
I am curious if postfix would be able to send out 300000 emails in one
hour, to different recipients of course. Taking into account
http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html and other such performance
tuning guides. This would only happen once a week or so. The important
part is the need to send them all in one hour, more or less.
This would be on a debian server with about 64 to 92 GB of memory, 8
or 16 CPUs and a really fast internet connection.
Considering 300000 per hour equates to about 83 emails per second and
given a reasonably fast server (over specced since I doubt CPU and RAM
would be the bottleneck here) I would think one server could handle this.
Suffice it to say these emails are sent to a list of COI emails. I
hate spam.
We've found that postfix can always send out smtp messages at a rate
hundreds, if not thousands of times faster than remote domains wish to
accept it. Postfix will not be the bottleneck here, I think.
Joe
