We something similar for a client a while ago. They are now mailing their
newsletters out at a rate of 150,000/hour with two machines. The trick is
to use qmail-remote directly and only queue stuff that doesn't get out the
first try.
Dirk
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]
>
