[CentOS] How to size an email server to handle 5 million emailsperday
Mike Kercher
mike at vesol.com
Fri Aug 24 03:42:46 UTC 2007
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-----
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> [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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