From: Torsten Mohr (no email)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 16:31:04 EDT
Hi,
> > 1.
> > I'd like to know if a certain Mail is sent by
> > e.g. 5% or by 50% or by 95%. "mailq" only tells
> > me that a mail is being sent at the moment or not.
> > But i can't see what amount of it is yet sent.
>
> Use the kppp GUI and watch the graph.
thanks for that hint, but is this really not possible
with postfix? What about machines without X11?
>
> > 2.
> > If i send several mails, Postfix tries to send them
> > all at once, which decreases the bandwidth for every
> > single mail. If the transmission is interrupted,
> > NO mail is sent. If Postfix would send the Mails
> > sequentially and the connection is interrupted after
> > some time, some mails would be out and some were not
> > begun, so no bandwidth was wasted.
>
> If you are worried about the bandwidth, apart from Ralf's suggestion
> (you could also simply limit the maxproc in master.cf for your default
> smtp transport instead), forward all outgoing mail to your ISP's server
> as smarthost (see relayhost in sample-misc.cf and relayhost and
> transport in sample-main.cf or 'man transport'), in which case postfix
> will send mail sequentially.
>
> --Tonni
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