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Subject: Re: Relaying Performance
From: Jesper Skriver (jesperskriver.dk)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 10:41:16 CST

On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:03:17AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> wietseporcupine.org (Wietse Venema) writes:

> Is there any support for having multiple levels of queues? Maybe it would help
> if I kept the active queue on a memory filesystem and only once a message was
> deferred move it to the real disks. In this application reliable delivery is
> not a goal; if the system crashing means we lose a few hundred messages that's
> fine.

I think they need to be in the same filesystem, as the file is just
moved in case of a deferral.

> Also, it would be good to try every deliver once with very short timeouts,
> then defer it and handle it later with longer timeouts. The idea being to
> limit the number of slots taken up by bad mail.

That easy, set the timeout to say 4 secs, pump all your email in, when
you're finished, and most mail has been delivered, change the timeout to
default, and do a 'postfix reload'

/Jesper 

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