Re: [Dovecot] Sizing MTA servers

2014-01-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/17/2014 12:36 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: ... > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-access_control_lists.html#SECTcontrols > > , > | control = cutthrough_delivery > | > | This option requests delivery be attempted while the item is being > | received. It is usable in th

Re: [Dovecot] Sizing MTA servers

2014-01-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Adrian Zaugg wrote: > Am 17.01.14 10:53 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: >> On 1/16/2014 6:56 PM, Murray Trainer wrote: >> MTA = disk. Always has always will. Disk throughput is always the >> critical factor for queue performance, and an MTA is little more than a >> queue. Which makes it surprising that

Re: [Dovecot] Sizing MTA servers

2014-01-17 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Am 17.01.14 10:53 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 1/16/2014 6:56 PM, Murray Trainer wrote: > MTA = disk. Always has always will. Disk throughput is always the > critical factor for queue performance, and an MTA is little more than a > queue. Which makes it surprising that so many people ignore dis

Re: [Dovecot] Sizing MTA servers

2014-01-17 Thread Frerich Raabe
On 2014-01-17 10:53, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 1/16/2014 6:56 PM, Murray Trainer wrote: This is probably a bit off-topic but does anyone have any idea about sizing MTA servers. We have about 200,000 emails/hr incoming and outgoing. I am intending using Exim and Spamassassin on each MTA. How m

Re: [Dovecot] Sizing MTA servers

2014-01-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/16/2014 6:56 PM, Murray Trainer wrote: > This is probably a bit off-topic but does anyone have any idea about > sizing MTA servers. We have about 200,000 emails/hr incoming and > outgoing. I am intending using Exim and Spamassassin on each MTA. > How many servers using recent hardware wo

[Dovecot] Sizing MTA servers

2014-01-16 Thread Murray Trainer
Hi All, This is probably a bit off-topic but does anyone have any idea about sizing MTA servers.   We have about 200,000 emails/hr  incoming and outgoing.  I am intending using Exim and Spamassassin on each MTA.  How many servers using recent hardware would I need to cope with this mail throughput