Hi,
Gossamer List does not currently do anything special for high volume mailings, and it's upto your mail server to handle things. That said, I would _not_ recommend sendmail for that size of mailings, but rather qmail (postfix is probably just as good, it's just we have much more experience with qmail).
The rate depends on a lot of factors such as the list quality, the speed of recipients, the size of the mailing, the mail server used, the quality of the network, the amount of bandwidth, etc. On sites we've worked with we've seen qmail push out 5,000 messages a minute (which would get you about 300,000 an hour).
With qmail, the important thing is to have fast disks. Make sure you have good scsi drives. 1 gig of ram would be adequate.
Hope this helps,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
Gossamer List does not currently do anything special for high volume mailings, and it's upto your mail server to handle things. That said, I would _not_ recommend sendmail for that size of mailings, but rather qmail (postfix is probably just as good, it's just we have much more experience with qmail).
The rate depends on a lot of factors such as the list quality, the speed of recipients, the size of the mailing, the mail server used, the quality of the network, the amount of bandwidth, etc. On sites we've worked with we've seen qmail push out 5,000 messages a minute (which would get you about 300,000 an hour).
With qmail, the important thing is to have fast disks. Make sure you have good scsi drives. 1 gig of ram would be adequate.
Hope this helps,
Alex
--
Gossamer Threads Inc.
