Re: [exim] Should queue processing be rewritten in Exim?

Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2008-07-02 at 00:56 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> A message comes in, is completely processed and delivered without
>> writing to a queue, all in ram. However if the delivery fails on the
>> first try then the message actually is saved to hard disk. Yes - there
>> is some exposure to loss of some messages on system crash, and you
>> accept that as a trade off for speed.
>>
>
> In my previous experience, only spammers have been willing to accept
> that trade-off. Just what the hell are you doing with email provision
> that randomly lost emails are acceptable?
>
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>

This wouldn't be randomly lost emails as in 1 in every 1000 emails goes
away. This is more like having a hard drive crash and losing what's in
the queue. It would be a rare and unexpected occurrance and it would be
something that would be optional. Peformance vs. reliability.