How we send 22k emails every hour

Re:How we send 22k emails every hour by marsdepinski on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:28AM (#20554950)

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.

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Re:How we send 22k emails every hour by aytekin on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:11AM (#20555366)

"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.

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Re:How we send 22k emails every hour by asark on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:34AM (#20555642)

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".

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Re:How we send 22k emails every hour by projektfu on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:42PM (#20556527)

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...

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.

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Re:How we send 22k emails every hour by Yajirobe on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:30AM (#20554964)

> I know of systems that send 10x that ie. 100M/day

Is that a spam system?

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Re:How we send 22k emails every hour by marsdepinski on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:31AM (#20554979)

No, e-commerce transactional and marketing.

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Re:How we send 22k emails every hour by pbhjpbhj on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:53AM (#20555197)

>> 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.)

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Re:How we send 22k emails every hour by asark on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:37AM (#20555680)

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.

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Re:How we send 22k emails every hour by finnthehuman on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:41AM (#20555733)

So still spam, but falls outside the legal classification of impermissible spam?

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