> You are solving the wrong problem. Your filter absorbs mail too fast, > queues it and then pushes back. It is far better for the filter to take > its time before responding to "." and thus to tie up Postfix connections > while the filter is catching up.
You are completely right, that's what happens. But that's something I currently have to work with. That's why I want to add the throttling to the part that accepts the email to make it accept email slower when the filter queue size exceeds a certain limit. Martijn