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smtp-threads verifiedWritten by the Hub

Intake threads

in the configuration this is a linesmtp-threads: 10

How many threads handle incoming SMTP traffic; each binds its own socket per address.

Values

Values
positive integer
Default
10 · taken from the build
applying
restart required
where it can be set
in the config file · with a startup flag · as an environment variable

In detail

Observed directly: with three addresses configured the node showed thirty listening sockets, ten per address. The threads share the port through socket reuse, so concurrency is real rather than an accept loop handing work off.