At 2:02 PM -0500 12/1/1996, Dave Crocker wrote:
>ps. I doubt that vanilla sendmail can get even artificial high numbers,
>due to its tendency to do single message per connection and even per
>process, though perhaps the recent round of enhancements has improved
>things.
The highest numbers I've heard for a "standard" sendmail
installation is about 300K messages per day, on a fairly high-end
machine. However, I don't know what the mix of Listserv/Majordomo
mailing lists vs. "regular" user-to-user mail was -- mailing lists
tend to get much higher throughput numbers, because you typically get
a fair number of users on each machine, etc....
I have heard numbers in the range of 50K for a pretty low-end IBM
desktop workstation, mentioned specifically in the posting of Paul
Pomes' program "re-mqueue" to the Usenet newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail.
For just receiving and throwing email into a user's mailbox,
unfortunately, sendmail is not that great. If you're running a
really big site, you're pretty much guaranteed to be replacing
sendmail with something you've developed in-house to do that one
particular job. You may end up using sendmail in other parts of the
picture (such as on mail relays, or to handle the actual sending of
outbound messages), but as you get bigger and bigger, you'll probably
replace more and more parts with custom-developed software.
--
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