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

--- Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote:

> 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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are you trying to say spam bot? ;-)

Steven
 

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