Thank you Wietse for your response and your beautiful software. I just realised that I am using MailScanner and that it would pick up from the Hold queue anyhow. Can I send over quota mails to the deferred queue or preferably some other specific queue that has to be manually inspected and then released.
Bastian, Thanks for responding. Like I said this is for few persons (who send occasionally) and expect responses of - say a filled in tax form or confirmation that they have submitted. Regards DP On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 at 20:33, Wietse Venema <[email protected]> wrote: > > Durga Prasad Malyala: > > Hello team, > > As part of our outbound anti-spam policy - we implement policyd/rate > > limiting using smtpd_data_restrictions for senders sending say more > > than 100 or 200 mails per hour. > > However now-a-days due to compliance levels - certain people need to > > genuinely send a burst of mails like 1000 or 2000 once or twice in a > > month as Tax deduction confirmations or asking for some information > > from vendors or something similar. > > > > Issue: As per all normal policy daemons we actually reject the senders > > mail and his outlook etc. keeps trying. > > Needed solution: instead of rejecting mails (beyond set limits) from > > authenticated senders using smtpd_data_restrictions can we just put > > them in hold queue on the fly so that the mail administrator can have > > a look at the mailq and release them later. > > You could use a policy daemon that replies with HOLD instead of > REJECT. The examples in https://www.postfwd.org/ratelimits.html use > REJECT, but they can be changed to use HOLD instead. > > Wietse
