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From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 07:04:09 CDT

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    Liviu Daia <Liviu.Daiaimar.ro> writes:

    > As Wietse said, that's overly optimistic. With careful tuning,
    > Postfix would perform better than Exim and Qmail, but IMHO, no MTA would
    > be able to send 1 million messages in an hour, even over a LAN. No
    > offense intended, but people who set themselves such a target have never
    > managed a mail systems in the real world. For a today's PC, something
    > like 40-50 messages / second would still be an optimistic estimate;
    > that's about 6 times slower that what you want.

    Well, in a LAN, it might actually be possible to get half a million
    mails through per hour without extensive tuning - however, that's
    without VERP and it assumes your destination machines are *FAST*.

    -- 
    Matthias Andree
    

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