Re: [Exim] exim in large-scale production environment

On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:12:45AM -0700 J.R. Van Valen wrote :

> Our group is about to go through the process of completely overhauling
> our Sendmail based mailhub. We deliver on the order of 190,000 messages
> per day, about 50,000 of which are non-local deliveries.
>
> We balance our incoming load over three servers. These servers then
> re-distribute mail to 7 POP/IMAP servers for user access. We have one
> server dedicated to relay mail to outside hosts.

I can confirm we operate exim at loads a good deal higher than that (we are an
ISP). Exim has coped well for us and, it does require some configuration
tweaks but, we use an unpatched normal distribution version of the program.

Its ability to scale over servers easily, I would imagine will be the biggest
plus from your point of view.

I am curious as to why you need 7 user facing servers for only 190,000 mails.

Good Luck!
Ian