This a follow-up to a quite old posting on this list. I just read something on postfix-users and feel that it is relevant for this question. The OP wanted to deal with a larger mail volume:
* Khalil Abbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi mailman guys .. my question is, I have a 100,000+ subscribers > mailing list, and hosting it with godaddy.com (Celeron 2000, 2 GBs > RAM) .. but they only allow 100,000 emails per day for each > dedicated server, so I have to buy a new server now, and it's a bit > expensive.. On postfix-users, Wietse Venema and Victor Duchovni said about Postfix scalability: Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:29:35PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Without content filtering, a 5-year old single-CPU machine could >> do this easily. However, 1 million messages in a day of 50 kbyte >> each means you need 10+Mbit/s of network bandwidth. > > Postfix on modern hardware, and a cooperative I/O subsystem, can handle > a million messages an hour. [...] I hope that this will offer some insight into what modern MTAs are capable off. Cheers Stefan -- Stefan Förster http://www.incertum.net/ Public Key: 0xBBE2A9E9 Still amiss: ~/.signature. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
