On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:50:43AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I just got a call from someone wanting to be able to send 50k email
> messages a second. Most of it in bursts of a few seconds long.
>
> Thoughts?
More details would be good:
* When you say "send" 50k msg/sec, do you just mean that the sending app has
to be able to hand off the messages to the MTA that quickly, or is there
also some requirement as to how fast the MTA can then deliver the messages?
* Where are the messages going? Local delivery, bog-standard "via MX", pipe,
something else?
* What's the budget?
* What are the reliability requirements?
* Is that 50k different messages, or 50k recipients but with <50k unique
messages?
* If remote delivery, how much bandwidth have you got?
* Where do the bounces go?
Those are just the questions that come to mind right now, I'm sure other
people can think of some more.
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