* Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebra...@charite.de>: > * Konrad Rzepecki <krzepe...@dentonet.pl>: > > > I have similar problem, and I suspect you may also hit it. In my case > > I send ~10k-20k mails through sendmail wrapper. My problem is caused > > by fsync done on EVERY queued mail. It take on my servers (4 core AMD > > @ ext4 @ LVM @ RAID10 @ 8disk) ~ 0.2-0.3s for each one. Sometimes > > it's even 0.6s! So simple mail queuing for 15k recipients can take 1 > > hour or more... > > If you want faster delivery, use SMTP. > > You can use mini_sendmail (which uses SMTP but gives you a sendmail > command for that)
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