> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noel Jones > Sent: Wednesday, 13 August 2008 10:53 PM > To: MacShane, Tracy > Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: Re: Outbound rate throttling > > > > > > I've upgraded a server to Postfix 2.5.2 (from 2.2) and tried > > implementing a slow transport for this purpose: > > > > master.cf > > ----------- > > # transport for touchy domains > > slow unix - - n - 1 smtp > > You can add > -o syslog_name=postfix-slow > to the above to differentiate it in the logs so you know it's > being used.
Great, that's showing up beautifully now. > > 15:59:14 smtptest postfix/error[4460]: 4061815E00C0: > > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>, > > relay=none, delay=4906, delays=4905/0.08/0/0.01, dsn=4.4.1, > > status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to > > mx.telekom.net.sb[202.1.161.20]:25: Connection refused) [ > > These are not delivery attempts. Delivery attempts are > logged by postfix/smtp. > These are all from the error: service notifying you that the > destination has been throttled because of multiple previous > "connection refused" error. Ahah! Clear as day, once you see the difference between postfix/smtp and postfix/error. It looks like it's working perfectly, then - postfix-slow is trying a connection every few minutes at present, and the rest are the errors/backoffs. So it should be fine, once they start accepting my mail again.
