On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Today, it occured to me that I might be able to use lookups in a filter
> to do the "peronalizing" after routing but before smtp transport time.
>
> I've thought of a couple of ways to do this, but they all involve
> individual copies of the message hitting the queue. Can this be
> avoided?
Send 1 message to the queue[*]. Set remote_max_parallel=20 (or
whatever). Set max_rcpt=1 on the smtp transport. Write a *transport*
filter.
[*] Actually, if you have n subscribers, and n > 100, send n/100
messages to the queue (i.e. for 3000 subscribers, send 30 messages).
That gives you some parallelization in the routing.
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