On 2018-03-16 (05:10 MDT), Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > @lbutlr: >> >> This could be done with a queue scheduler that pre-processes the queue when >> "a lot" of messages get queued for sending and then sorts them based on >> destination and the destinations that exceed some pre-defined threshold get >> shunted to a separate process. > > Currently, the Postfix scheduler will read all your 1000 recipients from the > queue (the read limit is 20000). Currently, Postfix will deliver all your 400 > to gmail.com AND AT THE SAME TIME deliver 600 to other destinations. > > With your proposal, Postfix will deliver 400 to gmail.com (leaving many > Postfix delivery agents unused) and ignore those 600 until the 400 are > delivered. That would be a regression.
That's certainly not what I meant by "a separate process". Anyway, it's not a feature I need/want/care about, I was just suggesting a way I thought it *could* be made to work. -- Because you liked "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" may we suggest "The Human Centipede"?
