Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-31 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Jan 31, 2018, at 9:53 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > Can you characterize the distribution of your mail delivery? In other words, > if you take each mailpiece, determine the MX, and collate the results, do you > have a lot of mail going to relatively few endpoints, or do you have a wid

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-31 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 01/30/2018 06:44 PM, Tech Gurus wrote: Just checking back if there is recommendation to increase outbound mail delivery . One additional thought: have you thought about punting the problem, and configuring PostFix to use a smarthost on a contracted mail service? One that cares about thei

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-31 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 01/30/2018 06:44 PM, Tech Gurus wrote: Just checking back if there is recommendation to increase outbound mail delivery . Can you characterize the distribution of your mail delivery? In other words, if you take each mailpiece, determine the MX, and collate the results, do you have a lot

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-30 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Jan 30, 2018, at 9:44 PM, Tech Gurus wrote: > > Just checking back if there is recommendation to increase outbound mail > delivery First understand the source of the bottleneck. To that end, the "delays" field in your logs are the key data source to try to understand the origin of the p

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-30 Thread Tech Gurus
Just checking back if there is recommendation to increase outbound mail delivery . On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote: > On 01/25/2018 05:58 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > >> This is not good advice, it breaks delivery to other domains. Much better >> to run a local caching

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-26 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 01/25/2018 05:58 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: This is not good advice, it breaks delivery to other domains. Much better to run a local caching resolver. Note also that the OP reports that raising concurrency does not improve throughput by much. If DNS lookups were slow higher concurrency woul

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-25 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Jan 25, 2018, at 8:51 PM, Anvar Kuchkartaev wrote: > > For dns optimizations I recommend to put other domain1 MX hosts IP addresses > to the /etc/hosts file and disable postfix dns lookups so you will reduce > volume of dns lookups dramatically. This is not good advice, it breaks delivery

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-25 Thread Anvar Kuchkartaev
You need to optimize 2 topics1. DNS2. ConnectionsFor dns optimizations I recommend to put other domain1 MX hosts IP addresses to the /etc/hosts file and disable postfix dns lookups so you will reduce volume of dns

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-25 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:50:24PM -0500, Tech Gurus wrote: > I have single mail server that send relatively large amounts of emails at > least 3 times a day ranging from 15K to 50K each time .. This is in general terms not a lot of mail for Postfix to handle. Medium volume Postfix servers run at

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-25 Thread Tech Gurus
gt; *Subject: *Configure Postfix for High Volume > > Hello, > > I have single mail server that send relatively large amounts of emails at > least 3 times a day ranging from 15K to 50K each time .. > > 80% of emails are going to one domain owned by my company *(Domain1)*.. > The

Re: Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-25 Thread Anvar Kuchkartaev
What version of postfix are you using?

Configure Postfix for High Volume

2018-01-25 Thread Tech Gurus
Hello, I have single mail server that send relatively large amounts of emails at least 3 times a day ranging from 15K to 50K each time .. 80% of emails are going to one domain owned by my company *(Domain1)*.. The current mail flow does around 1K-1.2K per minute , this is CentOS 7 VM ( 4 CPU/8GB