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The Wednesday 2006-11-15 at 22:08 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:

> Sigh, I am just typing this the second time due to power outage. Well, at
> least I know that my ups is cleanly shutting down all my systems.

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Nice explanation :-)

One of the things I miss in documentations is an explanation of how things 
work, not the usual extensive options explanations, like in 
<http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html>. So reading your explanation 
is a welcome change.



> A mailinglist server is a special case. If a mailing list has a lot of
> subscribers, then a few incoming mails are sufficient to generate many
> thousands of outgoing emails.
> 
> So Postfix will per default use a max of 100 smtp processes. 5 emails are
> submitted to the mailing list manager, 10000 emails are generated, and Postfix
> is using all 100 smtp processes to send mails out. If you are using
> amavisd-new to first filter the mail, that mail might have to wait for a smtp
> process to be free to be delivered to amavisd-new.

Amavis can use "lmtp" instead. But I'm too sleepy to know if it is postfix 
to amavis or viceversa O:-)

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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