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
