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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:53:02 -0600
From:      Tim <tim@sleepy.wojomedia.com>
To:        "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: qmail (Was: Maintaining Access Control Lists )
Message-ID:  <20020329025302.GA2581@sleepy.wojomedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0203281243060.18673-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
References:  <20020328203704.GA760@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.LNX.4.43.0203281243060.18673-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>

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  This is very dated.  It says "[qmail] Version 1.00 will be
freely distributable."  1.03 was released in 1998, I believe.

  For those that care, Dan hasn't updated this page recently.  He did
take Terry's suggestion and remove "against qmail/djbdns" on the
other pages (now just _Brad Knowles's Slander_, for example).

  Tim

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:55:59PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> In
> > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/jackson.html
> DJB says "The largest Exim host is doing a mere 50000 deliveries per day."
> 
> The publically available Exim users mailing list archives show a lot
> more. For example:
> 
>  "... we use an old SparcStation 20 to ship around 60,000 emails a day and
>  according to the exim stats 98% of those are shipped in under a minute.
>  The load average on the machine is next to nothing to the extent that I
>  get paranoid if it ever approaches one."
>  (<20000714095714.E17070@apple.ukc.ac.uk>)
> 
>  "... My server processes 50,000 to 100,000 messages a day and every one
>  of those passes through a filter that currently contains 200 rules,
>  mostly regex matches (checks for worms and viruses, scores potential
>  spam, etc.)  Server load hovers around 0.30 (FreeBSD, Pentium III 400MHz)
>  with the odd "spike" to 1.0 or so."
>  (<m15gs9c-000FaGC@island.islandnet.com>)
> 
>  "Under exim, I put about 5GB (bytes not bits) from one machine between
>  8pm and 9am.  That is over one million outbound emails in 12 hours.  You
>  do the math.  That is a lot of traffic and is on a small dual processor
>  PIII with a single SCSI disk (no stripe for the spool). ..."
>  (<396C78B5.4D54B104@cnds.jhu.edu>)
> 
>  (The same admin also says:)
>  "... We deliver about 1.5 million message/day on any given machine.
>  But, we don't push mail between 11am and 8pm (only 8pm to 11am)."
> 
> There are many other documented.
> 
> Someone should make a "DJB's slander (his word) against ..."
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://www.reedmedia.net/
> 
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