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SPECmail2009

The SPECmail2009 benchmark measures the ability of corporate e-mail systems to meet today's demanding e-mail users over fast corporate local area networks (LAN). The SPECmail2009 benchmark simulates corporate mail server workloads that range from 250 to 10,000 or more users, using industry standard SMTP and IMAP4 protocols. This e-mail server benchmark creates client workloads based on a 40,000 user corporation, and uses folder and message MIME structures that include both traditional office documents and a variety of rich media content. The benchmark also adds support for encrypted network connections using industry standard SSL v3.0 and TLS 1.0 technology. SPECmail2009 replaces all versions of SPECmail2008, first released in August 2008. The results from the two benchmarks are not comparable. With the availability of SPECmail2009, SPEC has retired the SPECmail2008 benchmark. SPEC will stop accepting new SPECmail2008 results as of the submission deadline on June 12, 2009.

Results

Submitted Results
Results published since the release of the benchmark in March 2009.

Press

SPECmail2009 Press Release

Benchmark Documentation

• SPECmail2009 User's Guide
• SPECmail2009 Run and Reporting Rules
• SPECmail2009 FAQ
•   SPECmail2009 Design Document
• Workload Characterization for SPECmail_Ent2009 Metric

Issues Installing/Running SPECmail2009
Installation/runtime issues raised by users of the benchmark.

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