if it is the only thing in the machine, you can use access list in the eth of your router so that machine uses only x kb
interface FastEthernet0/0 rate-limit input access-group rate-limit 199 2048000 20000 25000 conform-action transmit exceed-action drop access-list rate-limit 199 mac.addr.ess Len Conrad wrote: > > >Is there any way to throttle the bandwidth through Imail for the server. I > >have a client that wants to send 30-40 thousand e-mail out during the day. > > That's only about an hour's worth of email. :)) > > >Nothing else on the box except Imail Server. > > I don't know if this can be done, but I know you can increase the number of > Imail SMTP processes from default, (see the KB), so maybe reducing the > number of SMTP processes to some small number will will choke SMTP sending > down enough. try 2 or 3 SMTP and send the 40K msgs. if too slow, increase > to 5 or 6 and repeat. > > Figure that an smtp process will take an average 15 seconds to send a > deliverable message, or 4 per minute per SMTP process, 250 per hour. 4 > processes would be 1000 msgs per hour. These are very rough figures. > > of course, your other mail would also be throttled. > > Len > > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K > http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
