Ok guys, thanks for clearing that up, I'll definitely go through sockets if its the same speed, I guess I was making assumptions on the disk speed being faster. I'll look at postfix's smtp code first since its probably much better than what I have. I was looking at smtp_proto and smtp_connect but smtp-source looks like a stand alone script, probably a better fit.
Thanks guys. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > Paul C: > > Hey everyone, I'm about to write a script which would replace my existing > > php mime class / injector in to one written in C. This is custom code so > I > > am not asking for direct help with it, but since its in C and will work > > with postfix exclusively, there's one part of it that would be good to > hear > > options I have. > > Use SMTP. It will as fast as any other option that you may conceive of. > > > What I want it to do, is skip the first incoming smtp connection from my > > script to postfix, and instead just take my full email message and write > > the postfix format directly to the queue.to be sent outbound to the > > destination. > > (Parallel) submission via SMTP will be as fast as writing directly > to the queue, assuming a competent implementation. Remember, the > file system is the slowest component in the Postfix architecture. > > Wietse >
