Comments on: Modelling realistic email traffic – email size distribution

By: Email size distribution: results « Johannes Buchner

Email size distribution: results « Johannes Buchner — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:17:34 +0000

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By: Email generator « Johannes Buchner

Email generator « Johannes Buchner — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:12:33 +0000

[...] This is an updated code for simulating user-generated email traffic, for the purpose of network simulation. (previous post) [...]

By: admin

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:38:14 +0000

Excellent hint, simon!
I looked at it again, and I think I can come up with some adapted zipf if I have more data. I hope some mail server admins respond to http://marc.info/?l=postfix-users&m=125033153014044

By: simon

simon — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:33:31 +0000

you might take a look at the zipf distribution. I don’t know much about it but it was mentioned in a lecture about multi-media-servers to model server requests.

you might also consider a split in “personal” and “corporate” mail, since corporate mail often uses html and stuff, whereas provate mail is mostly plaintext.

greetins to NZ,
-s