Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
>
> I was pretty impressed that all that traffic had managed to come
> through onelist's servers without any apparent trouble (especially as
> a quick check revealed that the list had several thousand
> subscribers). I actually tried to pitch mail.com's
> mergers/acquisitions department on buying onelist based on the fact
> that I wanted to be able to do the technical due diligence on the deal
> and see what they were using. :)
>
At that point we were mainly using qmail as the outbound mta. We had
a set of linux boxes and we could get each to send about a million
messages a day, by running multiple instances of qmail. The bottleneck
on those boxes is disk. The subscriber database was Oracle, replicated
to a custom read-only database for speed.
Cheers,
Mark
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