[Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:37:36 -0500 
Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:

> I don't see that there *is* any theoretical way to *keep* loads
> down with VERP, by it's very nature.

External IO, yes, disk IO, no.  QMail allows you to initiate a
single spool file with a list of addresses to VERP against, and from
there every message is delivered individually.  This cuts local disk
IO, the ultimate constraining performance factor, drastically.

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