* Sam Jones <sam_jone...@btinternet.com>: > More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about > the performance that could be squeezed out of Postfix in a bulk mailing > capacity.
The problem is mostly on the receiving side, when the receiving system starts throtteling you. > I have a client that currently uses and ESP who have an astounding > throughput of up to a million messages per hour. This brought up a > discussion about high-performance MTAs and tuning and the general > comments I'm hearing are that things like Postfix, Exim, Sendmail & > are just not man enough for such a task and the absolute best you could > expect from any of them is about 100k messages per hour. I once sent 2096/min*60min = 125.760mails/minute on mail.python.org and there the generation of the mails is the limiting factor. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de
