Folks,
We're about to start a nightly custom mailing subscription service. Each email will
be constructed with information of interest to the subscriber based on the
subscription and other information. Total volume is projected at 100,000 emails per
night. The folks building the application are building the mail messages in Java &
Oracle. It will run on a Sparc E250. It's already running, but I'd like to hear
about any existing solutions in any case.
More interestingly, we're presently running Sendmail 8.9.x. What kind of issues
should I look at regarding the MTA? The Java servlet/bean/whatever doesn't presently
combine these and pass them to sendmail in batches - should it? We have a 1MB/s
guaranteed, 9MB/s max connection so I don't see a problem with overall bandwidth.
As an aside, I tried installing Post.Office but couldn't get it running.
Sofware.com's support site requires a license no, which our company has but their web
site wouldn't accept it. Their sales email never responded... It took me a while to
unwind it from the system but it's gone now.
One of the unheralded benefits of GNU is the increasingly elegant and simple
installation and configuration process. I think Autoconf is one of those quiet
milestones in the software process. Commercial unix software just never seems to have
that - they wrap inelegant Wysiwyg wrappers around a messy, fragile adhoc package and
install process that doesn't fit with each of the different architectures well. They
would be well advised to learn from the Force :O)
G
