2008/9/4 Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
[...] > Maybe router or firewall based traffic shaping would help - at least you > could prevent SMTP from hogging all the bandwidth. That's an interesting option. How would Postfix react to saturated bandwidth? Will it simply defer messages and try again? /juan
