Jon Harris:
> Hi List
>
> I don't know if this is possible....
>
> But we have developed a website for a customer with a CRM backend,
> without around 72,000 subscribers.
>
> We want to update and manage the subscriber list on the webserver and
> generate the weekly mailshot, all these processes are running fine.
>
> Our solution was to create threads on the web server (running IIS) to
> generate emails to be sent by the middleware (a PHP like language). This
> does work fine up to around a couple of thousand emails, then it runs
> out of memory and the process dies. I am looking at some kind of
> throttle, but its not a very elegant solution.
>
> I thought if I could generate a postfix friendly file, I could create an
> SMB share and drop the 72,000 files into a folder that Postfix would
> "see" and then process.
>
> I have a "live" and very happy Postfix server, already managing the
> email for a couple of dozen domains. (Nothing very big, mostly 3/4 users
> on each). Which I don't want to risk messing up. Firstly, is the
> feasable? Can I create a new "webqueue" folder, drop the files in their
> and have postfix send them off? Can I copy a file from the mail queue as
> a template?
Nope, you can't. The external interfaces are: SMTP protocol
and the Postfix sendmail command.
Wietse
