On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 15:03 +0400, Vladimir Vassiliev wrote: > Hi postfixers, > > thanks to http://www.postfix.org/QSHAPE_README.html I learned how to > limit rate of sending messages which arrives via smtpd. > Now I tries to do the same with locally originating (via sendmail) > messages. It seems usual recipes doesn't work. > What are the best practices to do this? Several postfix instances or > something else? > > >
Usually applications that submit mail on commandline are not designed to handle ratelimits and queue messages for throttled delivery. In fact IMHO you should *not* try to build the intelligence of queue-ing and trying later when postfix already does that so elegantly. It will be best to run two instances on postfix, the first instance picks up all the messages from the apps and send it at whatever rates you find reasonable to the second "delivery" instance of postfix. You could use different rates for different senders too based on the envelope-from address Thanks Ram
