Just had another thought. While dumping the file (probably in paced chunks - waiting for the queue to shrink back towards zero) may be sensible you need to permute you infile somewhow to ensure you don't have:
bob@domain sue@domain ... foo@domain bar@other_domain
If you dump a whole series of emails to the same mail server in a row it will choke and possibly ban/throttle you. One simple approach would be simply to apply a sort and let the variation in username vaguely randomise the domains or you could shuffle them in an array using a Fisher Yeats.
Provided you don't have high frequencies of gmail, hotmail, yahoo accounts a simple sort ought to work OK, otherwise you may need some clever code to make sure that these common domains don't occur in a row.
I would probably take the easy road and try a simple sort first and check how many times a given domain occurs in your proposed concurrency frame (probably 50-100). Domains occuring more than 2-3 times within a frame may be a problem as your MTA will be asking for that many concurrent connections.
Could not resist. Here is a don't hit the same domain if we have sent an email in the last n width frame algorithm to run you address list through. NB Code updated to remove bug where domain pulled off fifo in else unchecked against current working domain - if it is that needs to go on the fifo, if not it is good to go (untested)
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $frame = 10; my @fifo = (); my @seen = ('') x $frame; while (my $email = <DATA>) { chomp $email; next if $email =~ m/^\s*$/; my $domain = get_domain($email); if (seen($domain, \@seen)) { push @fifo, [$domain, $email]; } else { # try to pull next problem email off fifo buffer if (@fifo and not seen($fifo[0]->[0], \@seen)){ cout($fifo[0]->[1]); shift @seen; push @seen, $fifo[0]->[0]; my $fifo = shift @fifo; # make sure current email is not same domain # that we just pulled off fifo.... if ( $fifo->[0] eq $domain ) { push @fifo, [$domain, $email]; next; } } cout($email); shift @seen; push @seen, $domain; } } # we have failed if our fifo is not empty, solution decrease frame wid +th if (@fifo) { cout($_->[1]) for @fifo; die sprintf("Still had fifo buffer of length %d with frame width % +d\n", scalar @fifo, $frame); } sub cout {print "$_[0]\n" } sub get_domain { my ($email) = @_; (my $domain) = $email =~ m/\@([\w\-\.]+)/; die "Can't find domain for $email at line $.\n" unless $domain; return $domain; } sub seen { my ($domain, $seen) = @_; for (@$seen) { return 1 if $_ eq $domain; } return 0; } __DATA__ b@b.com b@b.com b@b.com b@b.com b@b.com b@b.com b@b.com b@b.com b@b.com b@b.com a@aa.com a@ab.com a@ac.com a@ad.com a@ae.com a@af.com a@ag.com a@ah.com a@ai.com a@aj.com a@ak.com a@al.com a@am.com a@an.com a@ao.com a@ap.com a@aq.com a@ar.com a@as.com a@at.com a@au.com a@av.com a@aw.com a@ax.com a@ay.com a@az.com a@ba.com a@bb.com a@bc.com a@bd.com a@be.com a@bf.com a@bg.com a@bh.com a@bi.com a@bj.com a@bk.com a@bl.com a@bm.com a@bn.com a@bo.com a@bp.com a@bq.com a@br.com a@bs.com a@bt.com a@bu.com a@bv.com a@bw.com a@bx.com a@by.com a@bz.com
In reply to Re^3: Applying the brakes
by tachyon-II
in thread Applying the brakes
by Ryszard
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