On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Mike Mitchell <m...@mitchellzone.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Fairly newbie user here (okay, waiting for collective groan to die down). > > I am attempting to configure a postfix server to handle really high-speed > mail delivery. This means I'll be sending (via Java API) potentially tens of > thousands as fast as possible (speed matters in this case--emergency-type > messages--so 10,000 a minute is desirable), to unpredictable domains. It's > likely that in many cases most of the messages will all be going to the same > domain, but I won't know what these domains are in advance, and there will > always be a decent percentage going to very diverse domains at the same time. > >
By the sounds of it, this is an attempt to make email into something it is not. Email does not do instant messaging. If you need to do emergency broadcasts, time sensitive stock purchases, etc., email is not the vehicle for it.
