Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> My problem is I sent out over 48,000 individual emails to my optin list (no
> spam, spam is bad!) and it took about 6 hours to finish up... The emails
> where no more than 3KB in length each. The server is pretty much dedicated
> to just sending out emails, there are no other users on this machine, and the
> only web traffic is very very light duty....
Did you disable qmail while injecting all those messages into the queue?
That seems to speed it up for a lot of people.
Are you using big-todo? 48000 messages pumping into the queue in short
order would seem to indicate this would be a good idea.
Are you logging with multilog? Logging through splogger/syslog can choke
a busy qmail server, reducing the mail throughput by an order of magnitude.
Are logs and the mail queue on separate physical disks? That can seriously
help qmail's performance if the server is extremely busy.
> I've looked throught the Qmail.org site but its all greek to me... no real
> good information for me there....
On the contrary, excellent information is there. There's a whole section on
large servers. Re-read it all, and follow all its links. Repeat until you
are enlightened.
> Can some one please tell me what do.... I am adding 2000+ optins a day, and
> in another month I will more than double me current subscriber base.... I
> know Qmail can do what I need it to do, I just need to know how to do it :)
If you want to become a qmail expert in under a month, you have your work
cut out for you. Consider the possibility of hiring a qmail consultant to
configure and tune your setup, and teach you the basics. Commercial qmail
consultants are listed at www.qmail.org as well.
Charles
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