>The company I am in is thinking about moving their opt-in email
>newsletters from a third-party service bureau to in-house.
i used to be a sys admin for a company that was just like your third-party
service... we had about a hundred servers (win2k, linux, sun, etc) on a
30Mb fiber pipe... we would routinely move 200 million messages per month...
>I was wondering what would be the minimum hardware configuration and qmail
>setup needed to be able to send 6 million emails within 24 hours as this
>is a daily newsletter? On tests done on a dual p3-800 with 1 gigabyte of
>ram running qmail configured according to Life With Qmail, I am able to
>send about 1080 emails per minute, or maximum 1.5 million emails per day.
for one machine, that's respectable... your real world performance will
undoubtedly be lower (the mailing machine needs to be able to accept bounce
notifications, subscribe and unsubscribe reqs, etc)...
you will never get 6 million sends with one machine... think about running
a cluster (ie: one machine composes messages and passes them off to mailer
slaves)... there's a lot of ways to skin this cat...
>Can anyone kindly provide me with insight on how to best configure qmail
>to handle 6 million emails per day? Is this possible on a single server
>setup and if so how?
we're working, right now, on a clustering technique... using the best of
qmail, mysql and a homemade beowoulf clone
some things to think about, anyway...
- hogan
