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Old 03-17-2008, 10:15 AM  
hjnet
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Originally Posted by minddust View Post
Hardly believable. You would get flagged by your host (or your free account would get suspended/terminated). The server would get clogged and that's without talking about the huge amount of disk space 1,000,000+ emails would take...

1000000/365 = 2740 emails/daily

at 1.54M/day it's 562,100,000 emails per year at < 2K each (without calculating the files inode/fs journaling...)

562100000*2048 (2K = 1024b*2) = 115 1180 800 000/1024 = 1 124 200 000
... that's over a terabytes
Yes it was indeed a problem as it slowed the server down. But today everything has gone back to the normal few thousand spam emails per day. And Spamarrest downloads the emails every few minutes from my server, so HD space wouldn't become a problem. But anyway, I'll have to prevent my server from that crap in the future...
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