On 27 September 2001, Matthias Andree <madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
wrote:
> 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*.

    I was referring to messages actually _delivered_, not sent to
smtp-sink. On a second thought, the original poster didn't try to send
1 million messages to the same machine either, so yes, you have a point.

    Regards,

    Liviu Daia

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