On 2013-08-02, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2013-08-02, Schneider <j...@globe.de> wrote: > >> I have to write a small SMTP-Relay script (+ some statistic infos) >> and I'm wondering, if this can be done in python (in terms of >> performance, of course not in terms of possibility ;) ). >> >> It has to handle around 2000 mails per hour for at least 8hours a day >> (which does not mean, that it is allowed not to respond the rest of >> the day. >> >> Can this be done? > > That's only a little over 2 per second, so I doubt Python is going to > be the bottleneck.
Doh! I meant 2 seconds per message. That's certainly not a problem. But, as others have pointed out it's probably the peak rate not the average rate that matters. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Actually, what I'd at like is a little toy gmail.com spaceship!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list