Viktor Dukhovni: > Likely I am missing some key insight, please pardon any confusion...
The ISP provides a budget of 5 connections/second, enforced at the firewall level. The OP's logging shows ECONNREFUSED when the Postfix scheduler rate limits to <1 delivery request per second. How can that be? For one delivery request, the Postfix SMTP client gets up to five ($smtp_mx_address_limit) addresses from DNS, and burns through those addresses in a split second as they fail with ECONNREFUSED. Instantly, he has used up his entire 5 connections/second budget with only one delivert request. Obviously, the queue scheduler has no idea how many 'connections' are being used up per delivery request. No amount of scheduler tweaking will change that. Wietse