[IMail Forum] BandWidth Throttle

[Anthony Santen]

We have an issue which crops up every 2 weeks or so.

The queue gets overfull, and starts flooding the upstream router with
packets.
The reason is that IMAIL isn't too clever about it's ETRN.

If any customer issues an ETRN command, ALL the messages in the queue are
triggered for delivery.

If the queue is older (and therefore larger) this can cause the mail server
to attempt to deliver 100 messages at once, essentially using up all the
bandwidth we have (3MBps)

2 questions:
1:- How can we purge the queue directory of old or bad mail (is there a KB
article on this?)
2:- Is there a parameter which I can use to throttle the output to 1.5Mbps
to allow a slower delivery of background bandwidth?

Anthony Santen

Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html 
to be removed from this list.