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Qmail performance
Excerpts from internet.computing.djb-qmailbeta: 19-Mar-97 Re: qmail on
NT? by Vytautas Vysniauskas@osf
> Currenly we have a qmail server (Linux 2.0.x OS) on P5/133 with
> 32Mb RAM. It handles easily approximately 200k messages per day.
> Previously it was difficult to send 80k messages with sendmail.

Just to chime in; my Pentium/166 with 32megs of RAM was so good with
sending mail that it crashed an ISPs main server without affecting mine
(except for space) when a user had a forwarding loop get out of control.
Maybe not something you want to advertise :) but in any case, a definite
case where Qmail saved my computer from death.

Aveek


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