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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:13:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>
To:        Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: qmail IO--qmail vs postfix competition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102201509320.18356-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010220234215.C87801@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jesper Skriver wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:22:57AM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > My company (online greeting cards) sent our 4 million emails in 4 hours
> > using a cluster of about 30 mailers with qmail on FreeBSD (old version of
> > FreeBSD at that). That averages to 16,666 mail messages per minute or
> > about 500 per minute per server. The best part was the servers weren't
> > breaking a sweat.
>
> Is that 4 million different emails, or a much lower number of mails with
> multiple recipients ?

Yep, that's 4 million unique emails. Actually, I should qualify that, it
took 4 hours for the mail servers to accept and queue them. The outgoing
probably took a bit longer, but from the way the queues stacked up, it
probably wasn't more than 5 hours to get all the deliverable messages out
(except for excite.com which wasn't taking mail at the time).

-gordon


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