I suggest “as short as possible” - 10, maybe 20 seconds with no mail? laura
> On Jul 31, 2017, at 1:21 PM, Ryan Harris via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > > What are you optimizing for? Connection time/overhead? > > Optimizing for connection reuse since the overhead of creating connections is > actually high for us. So we want to send as many messages as we can over a > single connection before closing it. > > Naturally we don't want to cause unrest within the ecosphere by keeping > connections open for too long. > > It would seem kind of pointless to keep a connection open for 10 minutes to > save 2s of connection time, for example. > > Agreed, but when you are sending high volumes of email, optimizing the > opening of a connection and reuse of a connection is worth us investigating. > > > Not that we're the best neighbors in this regard, but we don't reuse > connections for the vast majority of endpoints, just the highest by volume, > and we only keep connections open for potential reuse for 30s. > > Appreciate the additional details. > > > Ryan > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop -- Having an Email Crisis? 800 823-9674 Laura Atkins Word to the Wise la...@wordtothewise.com (650) 437-0741 Email Delivery Blog: http://wordtothewise.com/blog
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