Victor: I wanted to use Postfix as a delivery mechanism so that I would be able to queue and hold mail during database outages and other maintenance -- a job that it does very well. Is there really no advice available on how to increase the speed of Postfix's local mail delivery?
Thanks, Wendy On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Victor Duchovni <victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:35:19AM -0600, Wendigo Thompson wrote: > >> Postfix accepts mail from the >> corporate mail server and delivers the message via a pipe alias to an >> application that is then inserting the message into the database. > > Your choice of delivery mechanism is unfortunate. It is far better > to deliver to a persistent daemon that talks SMTP or LMTP, you get > much lower latency, I/O and CPU impact. > > Don't use local(8) for high volume traffic to a single mailbox, or > to fork/exec scripts. > > -- > Viktor. > > Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. > Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. > > To unsubscribe from the postfix-users list, visit > http://www.postfix.org/lists.html or click the link below: > <mailto:majord...@postfix.org?body=unsubscribe%20postfix-users> > > If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not > send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put > "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly. >
