On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:38:05PM -0700, Abraham Pearson wrote: > I'm interested in knowing what kind of speed I should expect from > postfix. Currently we are able to send about 15,000 e-mails per hour. > Each e-mail is unique in content and addresses to one e-mail address.
Well, there's no way to really know. Keep in mind that, while you may be able to tune things like simultaneous connections and aggregating recipients by ISP, you still have a fairly limited pipe. You need to do your own calculations based on average message size, DNS resolution times, spindle speeds, average TCP setup times (which often vary by ISP depending on load and how many inbound anti-spam measures they're taking), and a host of other factors. Frankly, I doubt that your mail daemon is the bottleneck if you feel you should be pumping out more. If you're sending out more than 100,000 emails a day, you must define your own internal metrics well enough to come up with a baseline throughput speed for your own configuration. Until you've done that, Googling for benchmarks won't really help you much, except in the abstract. You might also consider talking to the folks at THNA, since that's pretty much what they do for a living--but I'd be surprised if they tell you anything different than "it depends." -- Find my Techno-Geek Journal at http://www.codegnome.org/geeklog/ _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
