On Aug 24, 2012, at 8:11 AM, francis picabia <fpica...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Mike Mitchell <m...@mitchellzone.org> wrote: >> 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.
As I told Francis privately, there are many business reasons for needing this which are not immediately evident unless you've been in the business continuity/emergency management industry for some time. If anyone else is interested in these, I'm happy to explain privately, as well. But the need to do this is legitimate, and there are currently no better solutions to large-scale private communications today, including SMS and phone (smartphone apps have some promise of greater scalability and immediacy, but do not have the necessary footprint). /mike
