Hi,

I had to sent out an email newletter to our clients. The sending took
about 600 ms per Email, which seems quite a long time.

The server runs a pentimum 4 3.2 Ghz with 1 GB RAM under debian/sarge.
I was wondering, whether sending 2 emails per second is about normal or
if it should be more?

The total sending time was about 2 hours, which is quite long and I
would like to shorten it, if it's possible.

Fritz

fritz-bayer@web.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had to sent out an email newletter to our clients. The sending took
> about 600 ms per Email, which seems quite a long time.
>
> The server runs a pentimum 4 3.2 Ghz with 1 GB RAM under debian/sarge.
> I was wondering, whether sending 2 emails per second is about normal or
> if it should be more?
>
> The total sending time was about 2 hours, which is quite long and I
> would like to shorten it, if it's possible.
>
> Fritz
>

It normally takes about 1-2 seconds per message for average
email delivery, depending of course on a number of things, such as message size,
internet bandwidth, DNS performance, system performance, the remote servers
ability to receive email, etc. etc. etc.

However, Postfix doesn't have to deliver them one-at-a-time, it can deliver
up to 1,000 at a time in a perfect scenario. The large scale systems I've
seen have only run at a couple hundred conncurrent deliverys. Your mileage
will vary. For performance tuning hints, see:

http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html#rope

--
Greg