My Exchange server has sent tens of thousands of emails o my orgnaizations members multilpe times a week for years.
I've never experienced any bandwidth issues, but I have seen queuing problems (queue backups prevent newer messages to the same domains from being sent), but thats expected. On Feb 7, 2008 4:27 PM, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exchange can handle millions of messages per day. Easily. > > It might easily eat up all your bandwidth though, but you can throttle that > usage to some degree. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > MCSE/Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:22 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Mass emailing? > > > On Feb 7, 2008 2:49 PM, Durf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless you have a *very* sanitized mailing list and more than a T1 worth > of > > bandwidth, I would expect sending out a mass mailing like that to have a > > good change of bringing down your Internet line and/or your SMTP virtual > > server, depending on your bandwidth and how 'clean' your mailing list is. > > I've had occasion twice over the past six months to send out a mass > mailing to about 360 addresses. We've got a fixed-wireless feed we > use for SMTP and VPN. 512 Kbit/sec CIR, 1.5 Mbit/sec MIR. I just > dumped the message body into Sendmail on our Linux Internet gateway > (rather than going through our Exchange server first). All but about > 15 addresses were delivered (or bounced) in under 15 minutes; the rest > were in queue for later retry due to unreachable servers. That's with > no special planning/configuration, and regular SMTP and VPN traffic > still going. > > While 1000 is obviously almost three times as many recipients, I'm > still surprised to hear Exchange on a full T1 would fold under the > load. Are you sure of that? > > -- Ben > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > -- ME2 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
