What I found works best is to put the exim queue in a ram disk and set
it up to try one time and then transfer the message to another server to
retry that uses an SSD drive for the queue.
On 9/2/2012 2:40 AM, Ron White wrote: > Good morning,
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> More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about
> the performance that could be squeezed out of Exim in a bulk mailing
> capacity.
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> I have a client that currently uses and ESP who have an astounding
> throughput of up to a million messages per hour. This brought up a
> discussion about high-performance MTAs and tuning and the general
> comments I'm hearing are that things like Exim, Sendmail & Postfix are
> just not man enough for such a task and the absolute best you could
> expect from any of them is about 100k messages per hour.
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> Now, I like to wipe out the fact from fiction because people like
> PowerMTA are looking to sell their products and it would be in their
> interest to neglect that any MTA (Exim/Sendmail/Postfix) could be set up
> in a way that would easily rival their product.
>
> Can anyone on the list tell me if it's possible to performance tune Exim
> to a point where it could complete with this and possible strategies?
>
> Kind thanks
> Ron
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