On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Richard Welty wrote:
> bulk_mailer is unnecessary with exim; i bagged it when i installed exim on
> my systems. just crank remote_max_parallel up a little bit and let it rip.
> works good.
Sounds good, but I am a bit confused by remote_max_parallel.
It sets the maximum number of simultaneous delivery processes as I see
it for a particular source message. That is, if I set it to 5 then
I will get list deliveries broken up into at most 5 "sessions"
irrespective of the size of the list. So, if I have a list with
10 addresses I will get 5 processes with 2 addresses each and if I
have a list of 1000 I will get 5 processes with 200 addresses each.
I would much prefer what bulk_mailer does, and sets the maximum number
of deliveries per process and will fork another process only if the list
contains more addresses then the max per process.
Or do I misunderstand what remote_max_parallel does?
I would love to drop bulk_mailer if I can. It is a very non-robust bit
of code.
-j
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