On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:55:06AM +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: > > You've suddenly switched topics from message injection, for which > > the default limits are more than ample to global process limits, > > which for an MTA that mostly sends control delivery concurrency. > > Sorry, I misunderstood. When you say I'd need "a pool of connections or > parallel submission processes pulling messages from the application > queue", you mean within the actual application sending the emails to > Postfix?
Yes. And the pool is modestly sized. Around 10 parallel streams, sometimes a bit less, sometimes a bit more, depending on the systems in question. > If so, the server is serving lots of different email lists, and > there are 10 threads which pick up and deliver email for the lists. > Therefore, I anticipate that each thread will deliver serially, but that > there could be 10 threads doing so in parallel. That sounds about right. -- VIktor.