Hi Marc,
http://sh.wide.ad.jp/wg/smtp/eval1/eindex.html might help the MTA
outgoing transfer performance estimation.
It's slightly old information, but it tells what's important to
build up high performance SMTP transfer system.
HTH
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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. It has to
> do with some kind of gaming application. I'm just trying to picture in
> my mind what kind of hardware could do that.
>
> What the Exim record for how fast a server can send email? Anyone have
> some numbers?
>
> As to being fast, I'm thinking that lots of ram would be necessary. The
> you put the queues in ram disk and you have a fall back server so it
> tries to deliver one time and if it fails to laterals the message off to
> another server that queues the messages for normal retry delivery. And
> I'm thinking you would have a separate DNS server dedicated to caching
> lookups.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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