Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:39:32AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> > Greg Cope sent the following bits through the ether:
> > > I want to design a mailer for sending large numbers of individual
> > > messages to a large list.
> >
> > You're writing a mailer in Perl. Mailers have been done before. If
> > you're using a slow one, then look at other ones, such as exim.
>
> The trouble is that practically all mailers will write the queue file to
> disk before they do *anything* else, for safety reasons. If I
> understood the initial message correctly, this is his problem.
>
According to rfc 822 IIRC this is what they should do, and this is my
problem. Plus all deamons have a bottle neck managing the queue.
> I think that qmail, exim and postfix all fall into this category. I
> have a feeling that it can be turned off in sendmail, but you'd need to
> check.
Even turned off it's still slow.
Greg
>
> -Dom
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