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Chuck,
I would check out sendmail (http://www.sendmail.org). I agree with Gabriel
Rosenkoetter, Postfix can't handle loads like that. Sendmail has been
proved to run large corporate mail servers.
Good luck
Naresh
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Gabriel Rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:45:27PM -0500, Chuck Peters wrote:
> > CCIL is about to more than double our modem capacity so we expect
> > 3000-4000 users by year end. Do you think I should stay with exim, go
> > with postfix or go with something else?
>
> I have no experience with exim, so I couldn't tell you whether it is
> or isn't capable of that. (I'd be suprised if it weren't.)
>
> I do know that Postfix is quite capable of handling this load, and
> that a Postfix system can be scaled to multiple servers easily (see
> the documentation about its postdrop functionality).
>
> Fwiw, the MXs for both swarthmore.edu and cs.swarthmore.edu run
> Postfix.
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
>
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