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

Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Ram
One customer of ours wants to send research reports to all his partners "instantly" after the data is available. Our custom application generates the mail files with the attachments. ( personalized per recipient ) These files are then read by an independent daemon and sent to postfix smtpd with