Re: lots of outgoing mail

[John Griffiths <john@capmon.com>]

At 12:37 PM 11/23/01 +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
>hi,
>
>looking for an MTA that will deliver lots of outgoing mail nice and fast. 
>currently we have one mail server doing in/out (qmail) but would like to 
>split outgoing onto a seperate mail server because our outgoing mail is 
>going to increase.
>
>someone suggested postfix as the best solution. can anyone else suggest 
>otherwise?
>
>regards,
>marc.

You better define lots, and the intended hardware

are we talking thousands of messages a day? hundreds? millions?

and are you going to be sending messages concurrently? or one after the
other? (someone will have a better term for it)