# ActionMailer for bulk emails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-for-bulk-emails/60565>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 15, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-for-bulk-emails/60565 "2006-05-15T18:19:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@jeff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeff)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-for-bulk-emails/60565/1 "2006-05-15T18:19:32Z")

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I am using Postfix as my mail handler. When I have ActionMailer deliver  
a large number of emails, it takes a while. It seems that in my Rails  
process, ActionMailer waits for Postfix to actually send each message  
before returning and moving on. Is there a way to configure either  
ActionMailer or Postfix to speed the sending of bulk mails, perhaps by  
having ActionMailer just submit the mail to a queue instead of waiting  
for the mail to actually be sent?

thanks,  
Jeff