I appreciate this topic is already exhausted, but I feel I've been misunderstood.
 
I too am new to Postfix, and have only been in the IT industry for 2 years now, my opinion here is based purely on a common-sense approach to the original question posed and a response to the opinions expressed by others - I am not branding anyone a spammer.
 
If someone wants to spec a solution for 'distributing' 2,000,000 emails per day!??!?! then they should first be asking 'what size emails are they?' 'where/how are they being delivered?' 'what bandwidth is available to the server?' 'are they to end up in maildirs on the server?' 'Are a percentage of the emails to be sent by DNS, and others forwarded to a relay?'
 
If the person is asking "What are the minimum hardware requirements?" I can only assume they are not taking the problem seriously. The solution chosen to provide reliable delivery of 2,000,000 emails legitimate per day must surely be treated seriously - and frankly, the only way to accurately gauge the hardware requirements running a particular MTA / OS combination with your delivery methods, is to setup a test environment and load-test a server with the kind of traffic you can expect it to be handling.
 
What's more, if the person posing the question is doing this for a customer - are we to believe the customer is taking the delivery of these emails seriously? - or that the customer appreciates the fact that 2,000,000 emails is a serious amount to send in one day even if they weren't HTML ?
 
I've said far too much; Misha's point about helping people out is quite right, and my initial comment was definitely not helpful.
 
Best regards,
   Aaron

        -----Original Message-----
        From: mishawolfstar.ca [mailto:mishawolfstar.ca]
        Sent: Thu 24/10/2002 17:51
        To: postfix-userspostfix.org
        Cc:
        Subject: RE: Hardware Question
        
        


        Aaron Roberts said:
> I'd expect an outfit expecting to shift that many emails to have the
> kind of expertise to be answering questions on hardware requirements,
> rather than posing them.
>
        
            I frankly find this attitude offensive. I've been managing email
        systems since the BBS days and Citadel/ Fidonet... That doesn't mean
        I immediately know the undocumented hardware requirements of the next
        mailer package I look at. I switched over my home environment to
        Postfix to decide if I wanted to deal with it at work... Just because
        I have loads of experience in the IT industry doesn't me I or anyone
        else can guess the details sight unseen of a system. Cut the guy some
        slack and let him do his job. If you don't want to help him, that's
        fine, but don't give him static either.
        
            Respectfully,
            Michel Vaillancourt
        
        
        
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