> We're in a similar situation at the moment. However, we want to send out
> 100,000 UNIQUE emails per day, expanding to 500,000 or more in the near
> future. Also, our send window is only actually a couple of hours.
That shouldn't be too hard. With a Pentium 233 (not a P-II, a regular
Pentium) attached to a 512k dsl line, using an IDE hard drive, I sent out
1,000 unique emails from a Perl script, the script took about 30 seconds to
run, and all (deliverable) remote messages were delivered in about 45
seconds. That was with a concurrencyremote of 60.
So, with equal hardware, 500,000 would take about 6 hours to run.
Considering that you have about 10 times the CPU of the machine I used, and
a much better disk, if you have a large enough pipe, you can turn the
concurrencyremote to 200 (or even more), and it should work out in a couple
of hours.
steve
