BarricadeMX experiences

[Greg Matthews]

Steve Freegard wrote:
> We believe in truth in our Marketing materials, so we picked a value 
> that we knew we could achieve that we had seen on a live system.  I 
> don't personally believe in publishing pie-in-the-sky figures based on 
> testing in a 'lab' as there is no way to accurately emulate a live SMTP 
> stream from thousands of clients with varing latency and behaviour.

um... just stick a promiscuous MTA configuration on the 'net and publish 
the MX. You'll soon have thousands of clients of all "colour" limited 
only by your bandwidth!

We use a system with a lower priority MX record for "live" testing.

G
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Greg Matthews           01491 692445
Head of UNIX/Linux, iTSS Wallingford

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