Yep, basically what I intend to do is simply setup a dedicated mail server for customer mailings at a subdomain of our main mail domain, and route traffic that way.... that'll free up the main normal everyday domain mail.
Just figured I'd check first, in case there was another way to do it.... On that topic, though, do you think you might add some sort of SMTP queueing in Xmail in the future? One way that it might work, and possibly be easier to implement, would be to simply add a tag to all the queued SMTP mail generated by mailing lists, and put it in a separate queue direcetory, then process X times the number of SMTP messages in the regular queue for every 1 item in the ML queue. Just a thought..... it probably would have limited usage out there, since anyone with that much mail (like us) would probably just dedicate a server to the bulk-type mail anyway.... Thanks again :) On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 19:08, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure if you can already do this in Xmail, but here's my situation: > > > > On one of my XMail mail servers, I'm hosting an internal mailing list of around > > 30,000 customers. They get emailed around twice a month. > > When an email is sent to that list, about 30,000 messages are queued for SMTP > > transmission. And it takes around 16-20 hours to send all that, > > especially since a good portion of these users are in different countries from us > > and some over slower links. > > > > During that time, new (regular daily SMTP transactions including internal company > > SMTP email) mail is sitting in the queue, behind those > > 30,000 messages. > > > > So here's my question: is there a way to "prioritize" the queue, such that mailing > > list traffic is considered at a lower > > priority? Basically, what I'd like to see happen is something like "for every 100 > > low priority SMTP messages I send, I send 1 high priority one". > > That way, if I send an email that is a non-ML SMTP transaction, then it goes out > > after 100 ML transactions are processed. > > > > Any ideas? Comments? Suggestions? > > XMail does not have queue priority. Usually you can do that using the so > called "mailing list exploders". Basically other machines that are used to > handle bulk traffic. > > > > > - Davide > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
