On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:39:56PM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote:

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:59:58PM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 02:57:44PM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> > 
> > > > > IIRC there's a limit for limiting outgoing smtp connections. I just
> > > > > can't find it. Anyone a hint?
> > > 
> > > Use a policyd.
> > 
> > No, policy daemons are only involved in incoming SMTP connections.
> 
> True, but from his question it looked like his problem was caused
> by people sending too much mail to and through his system and with
> that a policy daemon could help.

Only if it enforced cumulative message size quotas. The problem seems to
be a slow uplink. Figuring out appropriate quota levels can be tricky,
but if one limited each sender to ~25% of the total available capacity,
one could survive 3 bandwidth hogs + routine traffic.

-- 
        Viktor.

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