Each message is personalized to the recipient. They truly are 230,000
different messages. That why it is fed into the queue.
Dirk
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 01:12:58PM -0700, Mark Delany wrote:
> Ug. You're invoking qmail-queue for each recipient? Is that necessary?
>
> Most of your system resources are probably spend putting individual messages
> into the queue and deleting individual messages as they're delivered.
>
> Try this as an alternative injection script:
>
> (
> sed s/^/Bcc: / <list
> cat /tmp/message
> ) /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
>
> Each delivery will only require the sync writing of one byte to say the
> recipient got it rather than wholesale deletion of a message. Each insertion
> is just one extra recipient in the list rather than wholesale message
> insertion.
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
> At 12:51 AM Thursday 4/8/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >What speed should one be able to expect from qmail?
> >
> >A client of ours is delivering a newsletter to 230,000
> >people which we are feeding into the queue like this:
> >
> >#! /bin/sh
> >
> >for address in `cat list`
> >do
> >
> >echo -ne "[EMAIL PROTECTED]\000T$address\000\000" >/tmp/address
> >sed s/xxxx/$address/g /tmp/message | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue 1<
> /tmp/address
> >
> >echo $address >>log
> >done
> >
> >Current speed is 20,000-40,000/hour on a PPRO200/PII350 with
> >SCSI drives. Anybody know a better/faster way?
> >
> >Dirk
>
