relay server - mass mailing tuning

2017-04-11 Thread Zalezny Niezalezny
Hi, in the next days our external service provider will push to our relay server (Postfix) regulary ~300 000 - 500 000 E-mails with size 60-500kb. External system provider has a SMTP server farm, so it will send messages from ~20 IP`s to our single Postfix instance. My question is, do I need to

RE: relay server - mass mailing tuning

2017-04-11 Thread Fazzina, Angelo
Hi, I would think they would have to tell you the volume and or rate at which they intend to send the mail. By default Postfix lets the queue grow to 20,000 emails I think, and then may stop accepting until it can process some, and start accepting more. Any reason you haven’t been reading this?

Re: relay server - mass mailing tuning

2017-04-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Fazzina, Angelo: > Hi, > I would think they would have to tell you the volume and or rate > at which they intend to send the mail. He mentioned message count and size, about 100GB of traffic, so that might take a while, especially when the queue is on spinning disks. > By default Postfix lets th

Re: relay server - mass mailing tuning

2017-04-11 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 04/11/2017 07:02 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > - If the sender's DNS setup is borked, Postfix will lose time doing > DNS lookup for the SMTP client name/address. One way I minimized this issue was to define a very large cache in the local DNS service for each dedicated incoming mail server. This

Re: relay server - mass mailing tuning

2017-04-11 Thread Philip Paeps
On 2017-04-11 10:02:21 (-0400), Wietse Venema wrote: Fazzina, Angelo: I would think they would have to tell you the volume and or rate at which they intend to send the mail. He mentioned message count and size, about 100GB of traffic, so that might take a while, especially when the queue is

Re: relay server - mass mailing tuning

2017-04-11 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Apr 11, 2017, at 1:55 PM, Philip Paeps wrote: > > It is worth repeating that the spinning rust actually matters in this case: > Postfix fsync()s when accepting a message into the queue. The time to it > takes to enqueue a message is at least the time it takes to write it to > disk, not sim

Re: relay server - mass mailing tuning

2017-04-11 Thread Philip Paeps
On 2017-04-11 14:04:08 (-0400), Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Apr 11, 2017, at 1:55 PM, Philip Paeps wrote: It is worth repeating that the spinning rust actually matters in this case: Postfix fsync()s when accepting a message into the queue. The time to it takes to enqueue a message is at least