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Not sure if this article is serious or a joke. 22k/h is quite small and most large enterprises handle this volume easily. Very very small scale. I personally, b

Not sure if this article is serious or a joke. 22k/h is quite small and most large enterprises handle this volume easily. Very very small scale. I personally, built a system that routinely would send between 10-20 million daily and doing about 3k/s. I know of systems that send 10x that ie. 100M/day.

Yajirobe 7y ago
> I know of systems that send 10x that ie. 100M/day Is that a spam system?
- marsdepinski 7y ago
  No, e-commerce transactional and marketing.
  - pbhjpbhj 7y ago
    >> Is that spam? > No, [...] marketing. Excuse me while I lol. (It might be completely wanted marketing, just amused me; almost all spam is marketing for something.)
    - asark 7y ago
      I doubt more than 1% of marketing emails are desired. They may as well be spam. Forgetting to check a box, or to uncheck a box, or accidentally checking a box, doesn't make them wanted. Not wanting them anymore but also not bothering to go disable them doesn't make them wanted. It's fair to class them with spam. [EDIT] I mean 1% of marketing emails where there's any relationship between the sender and the recipient whatsoever, of course. All others are spam, clearly.
  - finnthehuman 7y ago
    So still spam, but falls outside the legal classification of impermissible spam?
aytekin 7y ago
"tiny AWS instance running Postfix under Ubuntu. It has 2 Gigs of memory, priced around $9/month and the CPU load rarely goes beyond 15%" The title should have been "How we send 22000 emails every hour for $9/month" 16 million emails for $9 is actually pretty good.
- asark 7y ago
  I'm really happy the answer ended up being "boring, old tools on a smallish (virtual) machine" since my immediate reaction to the headline was "that'd be slightly impressive I guess... with limited resources, 20 years ago".
projektfu 7y ago
If you are thinking about doing this, you get a lot of discouragement from the conventional wisdom. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may... It's nice to see that a small-to-medium-scale mail server is still a possibility in this time of Gmail/Hotmail bans, IP blacklists, and the like. On that note, I wonder what happens when a scam caller dumps a SIP number and a legitimate business unwittingly picks it up when they open. Now a hundred thousand people have blocked it in the phone and it's blacklisted on several apps.

Yajirobe 7y ago

> I know of systems that send 10x that ie. 100M/day Is that a spam system?

marsdepinski 7y ago
No, e-commerce transactional and marketing.
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  >> Is that spam? > No, [...] marketing. Excuse me while I lol. (It might be completely wanted marketing, just amused me; almost all spam is marketing for something.)
  - asark 7y ago
    I doubt more than 1% of marketing emails are desired. They may as well be spam. Forgetting to check a box, or to uncheck a box, or accidentally checking a box, doesn't make them wanted. Not wanting them anymore but also not bothering to go disable them doesn't make them wanted. It's fair to class them with spam. [EDIT] I mean 1% of marketing emails where there's any relationship between the sender and the recipient whatsoever, of course. All others are spam, clearly.
- finnthehuman 7y ago
  So still spam, but falls outside the legal classification of impermissible spam?

aytekin 7y ago

"tiny AWS instance running Postfix under Ubuntu. It has 2 Gigs of memory, priced around $9/month and the CPU load rarely goes beyond 15%" The title should have been "How we send 22000 emails every hour for $9/month" 16 million emails for $9 is actually pretty good.

asark 7y ago
I'm really happy the answer ended up being "boring, old tools on a smallish (virtual) machine" since my immediate reaction to the headline was "that'd be slightly impressive I guess... with limited resources, 20 years ago".

projektfu 7y ago

If you are thinking about doing this, you get a lot of discouragement from the conventional wisdom. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may... It's nice to see that a small-to-medium-scale mail server is still a possibility in this time of Gmail/Hotmail bans, IP blacklists, and the like. On that note, I wonder what happens when a scam caller dumps a SIP number and a legitimate business unwittingly picks it up when they open. Now a hundred thousand people have blocked it in the phone and it's blacklisted on several apps.