Hi Again,
We put the QMAIL server in the production to see its behavior; quickly the
queue grew to 24000 (with big-TODO, conf-split is set to 44), we had to
switch back to sendmail, which did the job well.
Well, how do we optimize the QMAIL server to handle 300,000 unique outbound
mails in a day?
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Mehul.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 3:56 PM
To: Qmail (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Queue Building
Mehul Choksi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. The test setup was run exactly same as the production; the only
> difference was the email- ids were non-existent.
This makes a big difference; the system trying to deliver to non-existent
local or remote accounts will spend a lot of additional time and queue disk
I/O injecting and delivering bounce messages.
> 3. Well, I think I misunderstood "sending unique mails Vs sending same
mail
> to different addresses". Well, the application sends unique mails to
> different addresses with the same contents (the header changes each time
> since the "rcpt to:" changes in each mail, the body remains same)
Yes, you're sending unique messages to each recipient. This puts a large
load
on the queue disk. Sending a single message to multiple recipients only
requires queuing it once, while your method queues it separately for each
recipient.
Charles
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