Henrique Pantarotto writes:
> I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) I have searched this mailing-list and I understood that Qmail can
> handle this demand very nicely, right? Are those patches for "high
> load servers" really necessary or is the default qmail distribution
> (with concurrencyremote set to 100 or something) enough?
Crank your concurrencyremote up as high as you can -- usually 250.
And if your machine is at all capable, it'll still not be at all
loaded, so consider the big-concurrency patch.
> 2) Whats the best way to send the 500,000 mails? Send a single
> message with 500,000 destination addresses or to send 500,000
> messages, one for each email address?
Actually, neither. Ten messages with 50,000 addresses. That way they
each have a separate schedule.
> 3) If I really need to send 500,000 different messages (for custom
> text inside the message) to the users, will this stress Qmail or will
> it handle it okay?
It will stress qmail. I have a better solution, but it's extremely
expensive. Send me mail off-list for details.
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