James Robertson wrote:
We have a client who has done a mailout which adds up to over 1GB in size.
......
1160910 Kbytes in 988 Requests
......
Is there a way I can slow down or throttle the speed at which email is
being sent from a specific email address once the mail is already active?
It is affecting there ADSL connection and users working remotely are
having issues connecting in.
we did advise them to do mailouts after hours but but they decided to do
it anyway...... ho hum
Thanks
Postfix doesn't have any per-user rate controls (some add-on
policy services can do per-user input rate limits), and output
rate controls are limited to what's available with
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#default_destination_rate_delay
which is a per-destination limit, not an overall limit.
You could put all those messages on hold and release them
after hours. man postsuper; man cron
Maybe router or firewall based traffic shaping would help - at
least you could prevent SMTP from hogging all the bandwidth.
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Noel Jones
