Wouter van Marle:
>
> On 2 Mar 09, at 23:09, Victor Duchovni wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:44:21PM +0800, Wouter van Marle wrote:
> >
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> From me a question that seems to be asked now and then here, but I
> >> could
> >> not find any answers even on whether this is possible in the first
> >> place.
> >>
> >> I would like to be able to prioritise outgoing e-mail so they do not
> >> get
> >> stuck in the queue. This as I now and then send out a large number of
> >> e-mails with attachments, and that saturates my connection for a
> >> prolonged
> >> time. It doesn't matter that those mails get out slower, as long as
> >> they
> >> get out eventually I'm happy.
> >
> > Use a custom transport for these messages with a low concurrency limit,
>
> You mean like installing sendmail or so in parallel to postfix and then
> have sendmail send out the lower-priority mails?
No, use a POSTFIX transport map.
> > or use traffic shaping in the TCP stack to limit the bandwidth per
> > SMTP connection.
>
> And how would that get certain mails out with priority? It sounds to me
With the concurrency limit (see above), low priority mail can use
up only a limited portion of the bandwidth.
Wietse
