[CentOS] How to size an email server to handle 5 million emailsperday

[Mike Kercher]

Well, of the 5M, how many would be real emails?  I handle over 1M on a
quad xeon, but only a fraction of those are good. 

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Feizhou
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to size an email server to handle 5 
> million emailsperday
> 
> Mike Kercher wrote:
> > On second thought, are mails being delivered locally or are you 
> > relaying to Exchange (or similar)?
> > 
> 
> It cannot possibly be used for local delivery. Do you have 
> any idea what it takes to handle 5 million local deliveries daily?
> 
> I spent over three years managing a system that delivers more 
> than 2 million emails and handles on average 200 million smtp 
> transactions on a daily basis and you do not use a single box 
> for this sort of thing.
> 
> Delivering 5 million emails daily with a single box has got 
> to be an outgoing box.
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