How do you actually insert the files into the queue? I ran a few tests
using qmail-inject for each individual mail but I don't know how well
that will utilize "same domain" queue'ing.
-- Tim "Mylo" Madams
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I send out a monthly newsletter to a user base of 2.5 million
> using qmail. The marketing department stages the emails to be
> sent with 500,000 a day to track how it effects the web site.
>
> I use a pentium box with 128M ram, a raid disk with one
> qmail queue and OpenBSD. Delivery rates on that one machine run between
> 750,000 to 1.2 million per day, max.
>
> concurrent remote delivery is 255
> CPU usage varies between 20 and 70%
> (it's not dedicated to just qmail)
>
> I wrote a simple program to read a file of To: addresses
> and a file with the body. It calls qmail-queue directly,
> and monitors the queue size to self throttle itself.
> One to: address one qmail-queue invocation.
>
> A more efficent method would be similar to how ezmlm works..
> Batch up groups of email addresses with one invocation of
> qmail-queue. I think that would result in less disk I/O and
> higher delivery rates.
>
> Hope that gives you some real world info
>
> Ken Jones
> Inter7
> http://www.inter7.com/qmail/
>
> On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:04:25PM -0700, Mylo wrote:
> > Not sure if this went through the first time, I got a help msg back
> > so here goes again:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I am investigating using qmail to send a mass mailing to our 2M user base.
> > Currently we have been using sendmail. First, let me describe our current
> > setup. We have 26 different sendmail's running as deamons on 26 different
> > mqueue's. We then have a program that pulls user information out of our
> > database and creates the qfAA and dfAA files into these queue's. It dumps
> > 10,000 messages in each queue, then moves onto the next queue, leaving
> > sendmail to distribute the messages from the queue. This is however,
> > insanely slow. From what I've seen/read/and heard Qmail will be able to
> > accomplish our 2M mailing a lot faster than sendmail, however I believe that
> > a large part of our bottleneck is that we create queue files and expect
> > sendmail to recognize it. Okay, now to the question: What would be the
> > best way of doing this with Qmail? Running multiple deamons on multiple
> > queue's? or can Qmail do this all automatically. I am very unfamiliar with
> > the Qmail configuration so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> > Please reply directly to <A HREF="maito:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> [EMAIL PROTECTED] </A>.
> > Thank you.
> >
> > -- Tim "Mylo" Madams
> > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
