Victor Duchovni wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:18:25PM +0000, Tim wrote:
So the idea of this is to restrict SMTP conversations to 1Mbps? Won't that
actually make the problem far worse?
That depends on whether the problem description is correct. If 100
parallel deliveries of a given message result in timeouts to all
destinations (rather than just slower delivery) due to the lower
bandwidth available to each channel, then a narrower channel will
likely make things worse.
Yes indeed. In fact, I can't think of a scenario where rate-limiting
e-mail traffic would help with e-mail operation.
It would potentially help other services attempting to share the same
network capacity as the e-mail server, of course.
