Maria Arrea: [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > Hello. > > Our mailboxes box is a RHEL 5.7 x64 running postfix 2.3.3 . We > also have a system (out of control) running mailman that send us > a lot of messages in a short amount of time (23.000 messages of > 16KB in 2-3 minutes). We want to slow down that mailing list box.
Then, fix the problem on the sending machine. > I have been reading about "Postfix Perfomance Tuning" here: > > http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html#server_tips > > > But in this web page I can read "IMPORTANT: These limits must not > be used to regulate legitimate traffic: mail will suffer grotesque > delays if you do so." What is the proper way to slow down a > legitimate MTA? The mailman box uses PIPELINING and sends the > mail with 100 recipients each. The proper way to slow down the sender is to do it at the sender side. Wietse
