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Subject: RE: Need help choosing the right mlm
From: julio . prada @ bt . es
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:35:58 +0100
To: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM

hi micah,
 
we've been looking too for solution to send 50.000 mesg. daily.
Our scenario was Sun Ultra60, 512 MG RAM and USparcII, with 2 disks. 
It runs sendmail 8.11 and majordomo 1.94.5.
 
Releases of sendmail 8.10 and above use multiqueue (to improve performance
you'll need several disks, and put each queue
in a disk).
 
Our goal is to send the same message (32kb) to all users in less than an
hour. We install to do this "bulk_mailer" to improve
performance and management of majordomo.
 
During benchmarking, using 'top' we detect that the cpu has not a lot of
work (the processes were 0.14% more or less), so
we conclude that the limitation are not HW. We send the 50.000 mesg. in 2
hours with only one host. Hosts are added as speed is needed (to share the
load that has sendmail to send the messages...).
 
This test was in a labo environment. Probably in production, host will be
compaq (PIII), with linux, sendmail and majordomo.
We think it's cheaper solution with a high level of performance.
 
regards,
 
jules
 
 
 -----Mensaje original-----
De: Micah Abrams [mailto:micah@neoplanet.com]
Enviado el: martes 21 de noviembre de 2000 4:06
Para: list-managers@GreatCircle.COM
Asunto: Need help choosing the right mlm



Dear list --
 
I am currently researching different mlm's and am hoping to get some
feedback from you all.  I will be running the list off of a pentium III 450
with 512 megs of ram on a 4-meg connection (burstable) running linux.  I
need the system to be able to process at least 250,000 outgoing emails a
day.  Posting traffic on the list will be limited.  It will primarily be for
outgoing emails.  It needs to track both unsubscribes and bounces.  I am
looking for a cost-free solution, but am willing to consider commercial
packages. I am open to pretty much any solution so long as it runs on linux
:).  I'm looking forward to your sugguestionis.
 
Thanks in advance
 
Micah




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