Re: [cobalt-users] How can I speed up Sendmail?

["Shannon D. Denniston" <Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The system needs to be capable
>of sending 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 e-mails per day.

>>then you need a proper dedicated MX server, not a RAQ...

I was reading literature from Cobalt that said the RAQ Server
Appliance could send 1,000,000+ e-mails per day. I don't
understand why you would say that I need a different type
of server...

We recently attained a 2,000 e-mail per minute rate by
bypassing sendmail and having the PHP script connect
to the SMTP directly. The problem with this though is that
the SMTP is timing out after 30 seconds. We have searched
the script, but there is nothing about a timeout variable. Is
this something that would need to be modified elsewhere on
the RAQ?

Since the SMTP-connect script that we have keeps resulting
in a timeout error, do you know of any other scripts that would
allow us to connect to the RAQ's SMTP directly?

Thanks for your reply!

-Shannon