[ILUG] Programmatic mail sending with Postfix

[Philip Reynolds]

Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> 28 lines of wisdom included:
> On Wednesday 7 April 2004, philip.reynolds at rfc-networks.ie (Philip Reynolds)
> wrote:
> 
> But it's not a particularly efficient way of sending mail - SMTP is a somewhat
> sluggish protocol.

This is why you need to introduce multiple processes sending
multiple mails. You shouldn't have trouble over a low latency link.
I agree, it's certainly not perfect and I don't know of any software
to make this easier, but it really shouldn't be too hard to write..
OK, yes it's harder than writing mails to a directory :)

> 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.

No, unfortuantely it's not faster than using SMTP connections due to
the way the mails are processed. 

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