Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2008-07-02 at 00:56 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > >> A message comes in, is completely processed and delivered without >> writing to a queue, all in ram. However if the delivery fails on the >> first try then the message actually is saved to hard disk. Yes - there >> is some exposure to loss of some messages on system crash, and you >> accept that as a trade off for speed. >> > > In my previous experience, only spammers have been willing to accept > that trade-off. Just what the hell are you doing with email provision > that randomly lost emails are acceptable? > > >
This wouldn't be randomly lost emails as in 1 in every 1000 emails goes away. This is more like having a hard drive crash and losing what's in the queue. It would be a rare and unexpected occurrance and it would be something that would be optional. Peformance vs. reliability. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
