Viktor Dukhovni:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:17:56PM +0530, Clement Thomas wrote:
>
> > The total size of mails is expected to be around 200 to 300 GB. My
> > concern here is; will too many mails in HOLD queue, impact the
> > performance? Is it the right way to handle this use-case?
>
> Good email performance is generally understood to be low delivery
> latency, and you're expecting 8-10 hours of latency, so it is not
> clear why you are concerned about "performance".
>
> That said, provided your disks are fast enough, and the file-system
> is not full, there is no "performance" impact due to mail placed
> on hold. When you release the mail from the hold queue, you'll be
> draining email quite quickly, make sure your mailstore can deal
> with the load.
Watch for the email tsunami...
Wietse
