Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread Mark Delany
> pass the message off to qmail to deliver. As most message get delivered on > the first attempt you'll save the overhead of writing the message to disk, And this is a large caveat. If, eg, your network happens to be down at the time you attempt delivery, you'll inject a huge number of emails int

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread richard
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Lukasz Felsztukier wrote: > > I understand this code has to be executed in a loop for each > recipient...Can you explain what advantages I get doing it this way ? the code will spawn upto maxchildren processes all trying to deliver mail in parallel; it will try and keep tha

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread Mark Delany
> > In this way you'll make the first delivery attempt yourself for each > > recipient; avoiding any overhead in the qmail-send process or the queue > > management. if the first attempt fails then the message is passed off to > > qmail-send to handle, which should be a much lower volume of mail. >

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread Lukasz Felsztukier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John P wrote: > > All works great, however every so often (bi-weekly) I need to send an > > e-mail to 40,000 customers (different e-mail for each one), generated > > using MySQL and PHP's mail() command. > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Lukasz Felsztukier wrote: > > I am her

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread richard
John P wrote: > All works great, however every so often (bi-weekly) I need to send an > e-mail to 40,000 customers (different e-mail for each one), generated > using MySQL and PHP's mail() command. On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Lukasz Felsztukier wrote: > I am here facing the same problem myself. We have

Re: Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread Lukasz Felsztukier
John P wrote: > > I have a K6/2 400 running RedHat 6.1 with Qmail. The box has 160mb RAM and a > cheapo IDE 4gb disk (was once a workstation). We have a 2Mb/s ADSL > connection. It's running as a POP3/SMTP server for a small internal network > for 15 users. > > All works great, however every so

Concurrency questions

2001-02-18 Thread John P
I have a K6/2 400 running RedHat 6.1 with Qmail. The box has 160mb RAM and a cheapo IDE 4gb disk (was once a workstation). We have a 2Mb/s ADSL connection. It's running as a POP3/SMTP server for a small internal network for 15 users. All works great, however every so often (bi-weekly) I need to s