I've done the testing, but don't have the results here.
My recollection is that it was less than 10,000/hr,
perhaps as much as 5,000/hr on a dual Pentafluge 450.
best, paul
At 09:31 AM 4/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Len,
>
> I'll be connecting CFMAIL to L-Soft's LSMTP. I've tested LSMTP to send
>over 80,000 messages an hour, but not with mail coming from CF. I haven't
>had an opportunity to test how fast CFMAIL can feed LSMTP the messages.
>Setting up a couple of mail boxes to receive 100,000 messages is a bit of
>work, so I don't want to duplicate effort if I don't have to.
>
>A rough approximation to the nearest 10k/hour is close enough. Anybody?
>
>Chris Evans
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>http://www.fuseware.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 9:21 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Speed of CFMAIL
>
>
>
> >Has anybody done any speed tests to determine how many emails CFMAIL can
> >send in an hour?
>
>If CFMAIL's outgoing volume is insufficient, I would recommend having
>CFMail's SMTP client dump all outgoing mail on a local ip (no DNS lookups
>by CFMAIL) where a mail gateway running an efficient and reliable MTA like
>postfix would do the dirty work of actually delivering the mail.
>
>Asking a production CF server, I assume it's doing lots of other CF
>applications, to do volume mail delivery seems to be counterproductive and
>is certainly unnecessary.
>
>Len
>
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