Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Sam Jones : > I guess what I'm querying in a way is some of the sales blurb from > people like PowerMTA & GreenArrow and the remarks they make about open > source solutions like Postfix etc. This one in particular: "Open source > Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) often max out between 20 and 30 thousan

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread DTNX Postmaster
On Sep 3, 2012, at 03:56, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 07:14:35PM +0100, Sam Jones wrote: > >> I guess what I'm querying in a way is some of the sales blurb from >> people like PowerMTA & GreenArrow and the remarks they make about open >> source solutions like Postfix etc. Thi

The Yahoo trickle

2012-09-02 Thread Joey Prestia
Hi all, I am familiar with yahoo being difficult to send email to, as i'm sure most all of us here are. I am now faced with needing to increase my server's throughput to yahoo's MTA's. I was scouring the net and what caught my attention on the postfix mailing list archives was a reply from *V

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 07:14:35PM +0100, Sam Jones wrote: > I guess what I'm querying in a way is some of the sales blurb from > people like PowerMTA & GreenArrow and the remarks they make about open > source solutions like Postfix etc. This one in particular: "Open source > Mail Transfer Agents

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread Dario Cavallaro
Il 02/09/2012 11:43, Sam Jones ha scritto: > More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about > the performance that could be squeezed out of Postfix in a bulk mailing > capacity. > > I have a client that currently uses and ESP who have an astounding > throughput of up to a

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread John Peach
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 22:46:10 +0200 Lorens Kockum wrote: > The exact same question was sent by someone calling himself > "Ron White" to the exim mailing list at almost exactly the same > time. Peddling one's services by soliciting comparisons with > competitors is so passé . . . I find it rather u

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread Lorens Kockum
The exact same question was sent by someone calling himself "Ron White" to the exim mailing list at almost exactly the same time. Peddling one's services by soliciting comparisons with competitors is so passé . . .

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Sam Jones: > I guess what I'm querying in a way is some of the sales blurb from > people like PowerMTA & GreenArrow and the remarks they make about open > source solutions like Postfix etc. This one in particular: "Open source > Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) often max out between 20 and 30 thousand >

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread Sam Jones
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 15:39 +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 10:43:07AM +0100, Sam Jones wrote: > > > More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about > > the performance that could be squeezed out of Postfix in a bulk mailing > > capacity. > > Runni

Re: Rejecting mail based on destination MX records

2012-09-02 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 15:53:28 -0500, Noel Jones wrote: > On 8/28/2012 3:38 PM, Gábor Lénárt wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:33:16PM -0400, Jon A. wrote: > >> I'd like to immediately reject mail for all destinations with ONLY a > >> fakemx.net record. While I could block these as I find the

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 10:43:07AM +0100, Sam Jones wrote: > More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about > the performance that could be squeezed out of Postfix in a bulk mailing > capacity. Running a high volume bulk email platform is not a software problem. It is a

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 02.09.2012 11:43, schrieb Sam Jones: > More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about > the performance that could be squeezed out of Postfix in a bulk mailing > capacity. > > I have a client that currently uses and ESP who have an astounding > throughput of up to a mi

Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-02 Thread Sam Jones
More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about the performance that could be squeezed out of Postfix in a bulk mailing capacity. I have a client that currently uses and ESP who have an astounding throughput of up to a million messages per hour. This brought up a discussio