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I'm starting my new job as Lead Architect at Experian Cheetahmail at the end of the month; I understand their system can send billions of emails in a month. I'm
by DougWebb 16y ago
I'm starting my new job as Lead Architect at Experian Cheetahmail at the end of the month; I understand their system can send billions of emails in a month. I'm looking forward to finding out how they do that. It sounds very impressive, even before dealing with spam filtering.
- mml 16y agoI worked for an company that sends billions of messages per month. Their largest list is over 1500000 recipients, and delivery is tracked. Since the problem is trivially parallel, I just wrote a tiny jruby app that drove postfix, and multiplied the rig as needed.
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- mml 16y agoOh, and they spent a lot of time greasing isps to allow their traffic. For the record, it was all opt in (believe it or not)
- maverhick 16y agoWe use a similar approach, though not sending emails at your scale. The issue then becomes that of deliverability. Emails will be sent, but will not reach