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[ILUG] Programmatic mail sending with Postfix

[ILUG] Programmatic mail sending with Postfix

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Wed Apr 7 12:20:58 IST 2004


On Wednesday 7 April 2004, philip.reynolds at rfc-networks.ie (Philip Reynolds)
wrote:

>The best way to do this is via SMTP pipelining:

>This is the most efficient method of sending mail via Postfix. If
>your mails are all going to be unique, simply set up N SMTP
>connection to send X number of mails (X will depend on your Postfix
>setup). 

But it's not a particularly efficient way of sending mail - SMTP is a somewhat
sluggish protocol.

>In this instance postdrop is not your friend.

It's certainly nowhere near as good as the Communigate PIPE interface
mentioned, but I wonder would it be faster than using SMTP connections? I
suspect it might.



Niall



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