On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:05:52PM +0200, Bernhard Graf wrote:
> Lyris is fast:
> I know the Platinum license for which Lyris Inc. claims that it can
> deliver 100.000 mails/hour.
> We have been hosting a newsletter with >300.000 subscribers. In the
> first hour of delivery Lyris actually hit the 100.000 limit. These
> newsletters were around 35k in size.
With qmail and ezmlm we have sent about 93,000 messages of a weekly
newsletter list.
qmail has finished the first delivery cycle after about 2500 seconds (40
minutes). At that time 90800 messages had been successfully sent.
However the most messages went out within about 1400 seconds (25 mins)
Outgoing bandwidth consumption during that time was between 600 and 740 KB/s
(i.e. 5-6 Mbit/s)
You can find an analysis at
http://www.lamer.de/maex/creative/software/qmail/deliveries/
We did host the list for about one year (until the end of the project).
Except for the tests (which were done towards the end of this year, infact
there was only one newsletter sent after the last test ;-) qmail ran
the whole year without any restart or manual intervention (as did
the host the list was running on).
Minor maintenance of the list (some users are simply to dumb to get on/off
mailing lists ;-) was done remotely by an unexperienced secretary.
The rest of the list management was happily done by ezmlm without
any problems.
\Maex
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