Re: RES: e-mail servers

[Jim Steil <jim@xxxxxxx>]

Also, I should note that we run only about 125 users on our system.

    -Jim

On 4/6/2011 3:54 PM, Rubens wrote:
> Tom,
>
> For years we use Communigate Pro on iSeries, it's amazingly better than the
> native OS/400 SMTP server.
>
> All our mail applications are based on it. On their website there's a free
> version to try on different platforms.
>
> Yesterday I've sent an e-mail to 6,000 adresses, in 10 minutes about 5,500
> were received.
>
> Some numbers to think about:
> Speed: Up to 10 mails/second
> Average Day: Some 15,000 mails: 5,000 in + 10,000 out
>
> PS: Jim, any big difference between running it natively or on Linux? We've
> did some experiments on small Windows Servers, but it did well only with
> very small loads.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rubens
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Em nome de Thomas Garvey
> Enviada em: quarta-feira, 6 de abril de 2011 16:37
> Para: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Assunto: e-mail servers
>
> Hi, everyone,
>
> Some advice, please.  I know this is off subject for this discussion group,
> but...
>
> What e-mail servers can you recommend, and what are the hardware and
> software requirements?
>
> We have a System i application that creates e-mails and using the 'built-in'
> System i e-mail server just isn't cutting it in response time.  It can
> sometimes takes 10 minutes to get it to forward an e-mail.  The same
> application running on a different System i with a separate e-mail server
> (i.e. NOT using the System i e-mail server) SEEMS to just scream.  IT takes
> seconds for a created e-mail to arrive at its destination.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Tom Garvey