On 6/12/09, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > dan trainor: > > > Just to follow up.... looks like this process has taken too long. I > > eventually killed it. I'm happy that things are working *exactly* as > they > > should, however. > > > > We ended up splitting up that list of 300,000+ recips in to around 6 > aliases > > of 50,000 recips. This method is/was exponentially faster. I think at > this > > point we're going to consider a MySQL VIEW to convert one of those > aliases > > in to a more normalized group of recipients so we can automate breaking > > these messages up in the future. > > > > Thanks again, Wietse - I sincerely appreciate the input. > > > One final input: be sure to give each alias an owner-alias so that > Postfix will store the result of alias expansion in new queue > files. > > Otherwise, the result of expansion will not be stored. After failure > of delivery to one local recipient in the expansion, the whole > alias will be expanded again when delivery is retried, which is > something that the other recipients will not appreciate. > > > Wietse >
Hello - Very good point. We've already gone ahead and done that per the requirements of our list management software. Thanks again -dant
