Bryan White wrote:
>
> Sorry if this is a little off topic.
>
> I am trying to speed up my outbound mail. I am running a set of ezines and
> we are currently sending around 3 million emails per day. Currently I have
> a process that envokes qmail-inject for each message. I am thinking of
> doing a first attempt delivery inside my program and only if that fails,
> hand it off to qmail-inject.
Just out of curiosity: is there an obvious reason that I'm missing that
a custom app would send out mail faster than qmail?
Perhaps something else is the bottleneck. What kind of
hardware/connection/filesystem are you running? Have you applied all
the high-volume patches?
[snip.]
> Can anybody point me to some online or in print sources of information on
> the subject. I am in particular looking for documented examples of the
> res_query, res_search, snf dn_expand functions and the related data
> structures.
You must not have the manpages installed on your system. I can send
them to you if you like...
Eric