On 11/07/2010 02:59 AM, Liam wrote:
I need to have postfix deliver email bound for a specific subdomain
(e.g. websock.mydomain.xyz) to a websocket gateway I'm coding (in
Node.js).
I don't know what that is, but postfix is an SMTP server.
I've looked over the architecture docs, and would appreciate input on
which delivery method is most simple/robust to implement.
That would be SMTP.
The messages in question are valuable, and my websocket clients
I thought you just said postfix has to deliver messsages to your
application, making your application the server, not the client.
If the application has to retrieve messages, use a mail retrieval
protocol such as POP3 or IMAP.
often have unreliable connections, so I imagine waiting for client ack
before accepting a message for delivery.
SMTP has delivery assurance built-in.
I'm wondering about the overhead of having many concurrent delivery
requests pending.
Pending in what way ? Active transactions ? They should complete as soon
as possible.
I'm also wondering if it's possible/efficient to poke postfix when a
client connects whom I know has messages pending (due to a previous
delivery attempt).
You're again mixing up clients and servers.
I'd need more pertinent information to hazard a guess what you're trying
to achieve here.
--
J.
