Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-20 Thread Ram
On 08/20/2011 12:27 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/19/2011 10:50 AM, Noel Jones wrote: But from the volume you've described, you'll have trouble without using specialized hardware. Or a small outbound relay farm comprised of, say, 4 relatively low end boxen, each with a low power dual core CPU,

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/19/2011 10:50 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > But from the volume you've described, you'll have trouble without > using specialized hardware. Or a small outbound relay farm comprised of, say, 4 relatively low end boxen, each with a low power dual core CPU, 8GB RAM, and a ~100GB SSD. Rewrite the app

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread /dev/rob0
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:42:02AM -0400, Peter Blair wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Ram wrote: > > On 08/19/2011 07:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> Am 19.08.2011 16:05, schrieb Ram: > >>> > >>> I dont want to make smtpd connections in the app because that > >>> slows down the app si

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/19/2011 10:27 AM, Ram wrote: >>> To avoid the double write to disk can I write to postfix queue >>> directly >>> using some postfix library >> Direct Postfix queue access is not and will never be supported. > I think I will have to make my app parallel processing. > But is there a reason why y

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Peter Blair
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Ram wrote: > > > On 08/19/2011 07:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 19.08.2011 16:05, schrieb Ram: >>> >>> I dont want to make smtpd connections in the app because that slows down >>> the app significantly >>> and also this is a serialized process. >>> So sendi

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.08.2011 17:33, schrieb Ram: > > > On 08/19/2011 07:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 19.08.2011 16:05, schrieb Ram: >>> I dont want to make smtpd connections in the app because that slows down >>> the app significantly >>> and also this is a serialized process. >>> So sending mails seriall

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Ram
On 08/19/2011 07:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 19.08.2011 16:05, schrieb Ram: I dont want to make smtpd connections in the app because that slows down the app significantly and also this is a serialized process. So sending mails serially slows down the general delivery it is a bad design se

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Ram
On 08/19/2011 07:59 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Ram: One customer of ours wants to send research reports to all his partners "instantly" after the data is available. Why not put the report on a website and send the partners email with a hyperlink? The partners want them mailed .. just a (stupi

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Wietse Venema
Ram: > One customer of ours wants to send research reports to all his partners > "instantly" after the data is available. Why not put the report on a website and send the partners email with a hyperlink? > The biggest bottleneck to this system is the disk I/O. ( 15k rpm SAS > drives ) Why not

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.08.2011 16:05, schrieb Ram: > > I dont want to make smtpd connections in the app because that slows down the > app significantly > and also this is a serialized process. > So sending mails serially slows down the general delivery it is a bad design sending hughe bulk and "normal" mail-tr