Re: Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Diego Lima put forth on 9/8/2010 3:33 PM: > Hi Stan, > > This is actually a server for a mail marketing company, so I can > expect several thousands of messages per minute being sent from the > system. That's why I was wondering if there was any way to get postfix > to pick up the messages automat

Re: Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:33:40PM -0300, Diego Lima wrote: > This is actually a server for a mail marketing company, so I can > expect several thousands of messages per minute being sent from the > system. A company in the business of sending email is expected to use tooling sufficiently sophist

Re: Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Dieter Kluenter
Diego Lima writes: > Hi Dieter, > > I think I might have badly expressed myself :) The files on the disk > still need to be sent to the addresses in the "To" field. They have > simply been generated using an external program that can't talk smtp > directly with my postfix server and needs it to p

Re: Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Diego Lima : > Hi Stan, > > This is actually a server for a mail marketing company, so I can > expect several thousands of messages per minute being sent from the > system. That's why I was wondering if there was any way to get postfix > to pick up the messages automatically (the less programs/s

Re: Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Diego Lima
Hi Stan, This is actually a server for a mail marketing company, so I can expect several thousands of messages per minute being sent from the system. That's why I was wondering if there was any way to get postfix to pick up the messages automatically (the less programs/scripts in the way, the bett

Re: Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Vernon A. Fort
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 17:11 -0300, Diego Lima wrote: > Hi Dieter, > > I think I might have badly expressed myself :) The files on the disk > still need to be sent to the addresses in the "To" field. They have > simply been generated using an external program that can't talk smtp > directly with my

Re: Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Diego Lima put forth on 9/8/2010 2:46 PM: > I considered creating a > shellscript that checks the directory for new files and then sends > them using sendmail -t, but that isn't really good performance-wise. Performance-wise? How many emails are you sending per minute? Unless you have others pr

Re: Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Diego Lima
Hi Dieter, I think I might have badly expressed myself :) The files on the disk still need to be sent to the addresses in the "To" field. They have simply been generated using an external program that can't talk smtp directly with my postfix server and needs it to pick up and deliever the messages

Re: Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Dieter Kluenter
Diego Lima writes: > Hello all, > > I'm setting up a mail server that needs to read messages that are > created on the disk as individual files. This is an example file: > > From: Test 123 > To: Diego Lima > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > MIME-Type: text/plain > MIME-Version: 1.

Reading mail messages from local files

2010-09-08 Thread Diego Lima
Hello all, I'm setting up a mail server that needs to read messages that are created on the disk as individual files. This is an example file: From: Test 123 To: Diego Lima Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Test