Mike Mitchell:
> We've actually been providing this service for 10 years now, but
> are just now reaching a scale where default configurations are
> insufficient to handle the volume. We've not needed to touch the
> mail server prior to now, so are just looking for some initial
> guidance as we dig into optimization.
You announced yourself as fairly newbie (your own words). Therefore
I gave you my honest advice of "don't do it".
There is tons of advice in mailing list archives. I suggest that
you look for posts by Victor Duchovni (his name is sometimes spelled
Viktor Dukhovni). He did ball-park 400/s deliveries around the time
of the Google IPO.
It's impossible to predict what exact bottleneck you will run into
first with your mailing enterprise: threading in Java apps, Postfix
queue meltdown during submission, dealing with dead hosts, or other
bottlenecks.
Wietse
