I have a client that wants a email server for Daily use for his 18 user company they do a lot for broadcast emails to potential clients. The server should be able to hold up to sending 50,000+ emails per month along with this I will be using Mailscanner with ClamAV and Spamassasin.

Do you guys think the cable modem connection to web will create a bottleneck and slow the entire broadcast email to a crawl along with the websurfing ability. I was even thinking of getting a dedicated concection that will only be for sending emails on they normally send the broadcast email in batches of 10,000+ each week the existing email server is a cobalt RAQ 550 and the queues seem like they just get overloaded..

Any advise will be great appreciated!!!

Tim

If you're sending that email, a cable modem connection probably won't cut it. Although the download speeds can go as high as 8Mbit, the upstream speed rarely gets higher than 768Kbit. You need to think T1, or really bonded T1s, for your outbound email to keep up.

A cable modem definately won't cut that patty.

A quick question though, is this an ethical job? It sounds remarkably like a few requests I've had over the years that have always come back to some idiot spammer...and I always refuse. If it is one of those, do yourself a favour and refuse. 10 years from now you'll be happy you did.

williamwbishop, This isn't a SPAM JOB it's 100% legit!!!! They have a large membership database and they need to be able to send bulk email effectively..


So any helpful ideas or thoughts would be appreciated


Tim

With that kind of load, and it sounds like he's wanting to get out as cheap as possible, he might consider going co-lo....