[ILUG] Programmatic mail sending with Postfix

[Niall O Broin]

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

>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..

Not even very hard, in that we use PHP and/or Perl which each have SMTP
sending modules. Although they don't multiprocess AFAIK

>OK, yes it's harder than writing mails to a directory :)

And MUCH slower which is the point.

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

Hmm - I find that curious - because with an SMTP connection eventually a file
has to be created in the maildrop directory. And I'd have thought that running
postdrop would be a little faster than an SMTP connection. But that's only a
gut feeling.



Niall