Paul Watkins writes:
> I'm operating a system that doesn't need the reliability that queueing
> affords - speed is all that counts, because after 10 minutes any email that
> hasn't gotten out is out-of-date and worthless - such is the unique nature
> of our system. Since I've got to get out 10,000 emails in a few minutes,
> I'm finding that the hard disk is the massive bottleneck in achieving this.
> I'm running Solaris and am looking at the possibility of having the queue on
> tmpfs so it's in RAM. Of course, on reboot or crash the directory structure
> would be gone.. how much of this directory structure does qmail expect to
> find, and how much of it will it create on the fly? Any other suggestions?
I don't think you want to use vanilla qmail, then. Sounds more like
you need a custom program which talks to qmail-lspawn and hands them
all the same file.
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