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Subject: Re: Large job submissions
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (news-list.postfix.usersinnominate.de)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 07:37:32 CDT

>What kind of changes can I make to accept such big jobs?
>They are giving me a test box at first with only 64MB of ram and
>probably an 8Gig drive, so there is not much room for
>configuration there. Will 50 SMTP agents be ok with 64MBs? I
>expect message sizes to be between 5K and 20K.

What are you trying to do?
You're sending 20k mail out into the internet ? Into the intranet ?
Are you storing them locally?

>If this works out, then I will get another computer and I would
>like suggestions on terms of some basic specs. For instance what
>directories would benefit from having their own disk?
>So far I was thinking of /var/spool/postfix and
>/var/spool/mqueue

On a RAID Stack, preferably.

>Which directory will hold all the incoming messages "mqueue?"
>Will 256MB be OK?

/var/spool/postfix/incoming ?

>Again the overriding concern does not seem to be that the
>messages go out super fast, but that the machine can accept all
>the messages. It really doesn't make much difference if the
>machine takes 30 minutes or two hours. Obviously I want to
>create the best setup I can with whatever hardware they give me
>so I would play with the settings before going on production.

So you want a box which simply accepts all mail, queues them and fires them
out into the internet? 

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