Re: Configuring Qmail for a 6 million subscriber emails per day? - More information

[Felix von Leitner]

Thus spake PHP Webmaster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Dual P3-800
> 1 Gig ram
> RAID 5 with 4 10k rpm disks
  ^^^^^^ DON'T.

Use striping and mirroring instead.

> The messages are about 10k a piece. They are
> personalized for each subscriber.

I hope it's not spam.  6 million opt-in sounds a lot like it.

> Bounces are handled via piping to php script which
> interfaces with MySQL.
                  ^^^^^

DON'T!
MySQL has a reliability, performance and recovery-after-crash
problems.  Get yourself a real database.

Oh, and learn how to quote properly when posting to technical mailing
lists.  This is a not a chat-room, you know?

Felix