SPECmail2008
SPECmail2008 is a software benchmark designed to measure a system's ability to act as an enterprise mail server servicing email requests based on the Internet standard protocols SMTP and IMAP4. The benchmark concentrates on the workload encountered by corporate mail servers, with an overall user count in the range of 250-5,000 users. It models IMAP business users accessing IMAP servers over fast local area networks (LAN) instead of broadband, WAN or dialup access speeds.
Retired
SPECmail2008 Retirement
The SPECmail2008 suite was retired in July 2009. As of July 24, 2009, no further SPECmail2008 results are being accepted for publication on the SPEC web site. Please see the new mail server benchmark suite, SPECmail2009.
Results
- Submitted Results
- Results published from the release of the benchmark in August 2008 to its retirement in July 2009.
Press Information
Benchmark Documentation
- SPECmail2008 User's Guide (05/27/2008)
- SPECmail2008 Run and Reporting Rules (07/17/2008)
- SPECmail2008 FAQ (05/27/2008)
- SPECmail2008 Design Document (06/02/2008)
- SPECmail2008 White Paper (06/02/2008)
- SPECmail2008 Workload Characterization (06/03/2008)
- Issues Installing/Running SPECmail2008
- Installation/runtime issues raised by users of the benchmark.