On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:28:43PM -0800, Brandon Yu wrote:
> I have been given the task to send out 2 million emails in a 12 hour time
> window. All the emails will be sent remotely, to a list of users of which is
> 90% accurate (I figure 10% of the emails will bounceback because of bad
> email addresses) I have all the bandwidth I need (servers are located in
> co-location) and will be sorting the email list by domain name.
>
> My initial idea is to have 2 dedicated qmail servers, ( Redhat Linux 6.2,
> Pentium 600, 500Megs RAM, IDE drives) configured with a concurrency limit of
> 400. Other than that, the qmail install will be out of the box.
>
> Can I reasonably meet this rate ? Do you have any suggestions?
A higher concurrency *may* be beneficial. It's not gonna hurt, anyway.
I'm assuming you are using ezmlm or something similar for this.
Anything else would be suicide.
Greetz, Peter.
