multiple smtp servers on same physical box

Hi All!

I have this app which sends over 100k emails a day.
For some reason I had to create 5 smtp servers on the same box.
And the app was randomly using those 5 servers.

This however made app slow. The rate of sending mails came down instead
of going up. So I changed the app so that it used only the default
port.This did'nt help either.I had to turn off the remaining smtp
servers to make the app run faster(as it was before).

I used milli secs and modulus operator the to do the random thingy.(i
wanted to avoid using the random class)

I use IIS 6.


Any suggessionts or comments?

Thanks in advance
Pa

On 3 Oct 2005 10:48:33 -0700, "pa" <parez81.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:

>I have this app which sends over 100k emails a day.
>For some reason I had to create 5 smtp servers on the same box.
>And the app was randomly using those 5 servers.
>
>This however made app slow. The rate of sending mails came down instead
>of going up. So I changed the app so that it used only the default
>port.This did'nt help either.I had to turn off the remaining smtp
>servers to make the app run faster(as it was before).
>
>I used milli secs and modulus operator the to do the random thingy.(i
>wanted to avoid using the random class)
>
>I use IIS 6.
>
>
>Any suggessionts or comments?

Use a thirdy party mail server. One designed for the usage you need.

Jeff