> Quite a while ago a few people posted the size of their mail systems
> that exim was handling and their experience with exim compared to their
> previous mailer. Could people post again now there's more using exim?
well, our usage has gone up since then, we now consistently deliver
>= 40,000 messages a day (usually closer to 50,000)
> I'm trying to sell exim into our company as our main mailer and I need
> some numbers to back it up. Currently our new mail system is beta'ing
> running smail, and one sparc 20 is handling about 145000 messages a day.
Eek, we're about to be usurped! :-)
The stats I quoted were for our primary MX and outgoing SMTP server
(Sparc Ultra 2, 200MHz, 256MB RAM -- hardly ticking over :-)
In addition we have 2 Linux boxes that each receive around 10,000 a
day and a FreeBSD box that just handles a trickle.
The Ultra is also starting to run as a POP server....
The only load issues I've noticed have been when the number of
messages backlogged in the Q exceed 2,500 -- then the Exim Q runners
spend quite a few CPU secs deciding which messages are fit for a
retry. Otherwise, no problems....
Cheers
Kuyper
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