Paul,

I'm actually pretty confident I can keep the mail servers running efficiently - it was actually my primary task at my previous job. Removing the MTA out of the picture entirely, I'm simply trying to decide how to push messages into the mail queues on the mail server themselves. I've already decided that we'll have high priority and low priority mail queues or MTA instances. I'm more concerned at this point on how to get the messages there in the most standardized way.

- Do I want to just use mail() inside PHP and push high priority mail directly to the relay hosts, and then have a separate two server setup - one to run the cron, and one to act as the MTA, for lower priority bulk mail?

or

- Do I want to setup a database table, where every message goes into (high or low priority), and have a process constantly reading from that queue and creating messages (and then, sending them to the appropriate relay host, depending on its priority)

So really, this is a case of figuring out how to standardize email generation, not necesarilly sending.

-Matt
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