Hi.
Once per month we have to send "mass mailing" over EFA 3.x
This is triggered from Windows WebServer and it uses EFA 3.x SMTP as a relay.
We are talking about 8-10 thousands of messages.
How can we speed up process of sending that amount of messages?
Currently sending those 8-10 thousands messages lasts about 1 hour for postfix queue to send them all.
Sometimes I run service postifx restart several times which seems to me that speeds up processing this huge queue.
Please help out which settings should we increase to speed up the process in future.
Thank you very much and wish you a great day!
How to increase mass mailing over EFA 3.x
Re: How to increase mass mailing over EFA 3.x
Anyone, pls?
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Re: How to increase mass mailing over EFA 3.x
You can add more threads to /etc/postfix/master.cf and you can increase your delivery concurrency limits in /etc/postfix/main.cf
Re: How to increase mass mailing over EFA 3.x
How big are the messages?
Are you sending the messages one at a time, or are you sending them in batches?
Are you sending the messages one at a time, or are you sending them in batches?
Re: How to increase mass mailing over EFA 3.x
Hi. Got this info from the team who are sending those mesages to customers:
- We send them one by one. How big.. it's HTML based emails. So, it's dozens of KB, I think.
- I also found out, that we don't close explicitly communication channel. So, i believe it could cause some delays.
- We send them one by one. How big.. it's HTML based emails. So, it's dozens of KB, I think.
- I also found out, that we don't close explicitly communication channel. So, i believe it could cause some delays.
Re: How to increase mass mailing over EFA 3.x
I have a client that sends 10-15K emails, several times per week via Exchange Server.
1/ they send them bcc'ed 300 messages at a time. The "To:" address is to their own address, not directly to the recipient. I believe EFA then breaks this down into groups of 100 at a time on our installation.
2/ yes, close your connection. that's helpful.
From sending all those messages from Exchange Server to EFA only takes a few seconds for all emails.
From EFA to the rest of the world takes less than 15 minutes.
1/ they send them bcc'ed 300 messages at a time. The "To:" address is to their own address, not directly to the recipient. I believe EFA then breaks this down into groups of 100 at a time on our installation.
2/ yes, close your connection. that's helpful.
From sending all those messages from Exchange Server to EFA only takes a few seconds for all emails.
From EFA to the rest of the world takes less than 15 minutes.
Re: How to increase mass mailing over EFA 3.x
Hi.
Thanks for the reply.
BTW u could stop by on IRC chanel (https://wiki.efa-project.org/doku.php?id=irc_channel)
We have migrated to EFA 4 and change settings per Shawn suggestion "You can add more threads to /etc/postfix/master.cf and you can increase your delivery concurrency limits in /etc/postfix/main.cf".
I will monitor the next time when we "mass mail" to see if it's any better.
Have a nice day!
With best regards
BostjanC
Thanks for the reply.
BTW u could stop by on IRC chanel (https://wiki.efa-project.org/doku.php?id=irc_channel)
We have migrated to EFA 4 and change settings per Shawn suggestion "You can add more threads to /etc/postfix/master.cf and you can increase your delivery concurrency limits in /etc/postfix/main.cf".
I will monitor the next time when we "mass mail" to see if it's any better.
Have a nice day!
With best regards
BostjanC