Durga Prasad Malyala:
> Thank you Wietse for your response and your beautiful software.
> I just realised that I am using MailScanner and that it would pick up
> from the Hold queue anyhow.
> Can I send over quota mails to the deferred queue or preferably some
> other specific queue that has to be manually inspected and then
> released.
1) The HOLD queue is the supported way to freeze messages in the
queue. 2) Mailscanner is not supported.
Wietse
> Bastian,
> Thanks for responding. Like I said this is for few persons (who send
> occasionally) and expect responses of - say a filled in tax form or
> confirmation that they have submitted.
>
> Regards
> DP
>
> On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 at 20:33, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> >
> > Durga Prasad Malyala:
> > > Hello team,
> > > As part of our outbound anti-spam policy - we implement policyd/rate
> > > limiting using smtpd_data_restrictions for senders sending say more
> > > than 100 or 200 mails per hour.
> > > However now-a-days due to compliance levels - certain people need to
> > > genuinely send a burst of mails like 1000 or 2000 once or twice in a
> > > month as Tax deduction confirmations or asking for some information
> > > from vendors or something similar.
> > >
> > > Issue: As per all normal policy daemons we actually reject the senders
> > > mail and his outlook etc. keeps trying.
> > > Needed solution: instead of rejecting mails (beyond set limits) from
> > > authenticated senders using smtpd_data_restrictions can we just put
> > > them in hold queue on the fly so that the mail administrator can have
> > > a look at the mailq and release them later.
> >
> > You could use a policy daemon that replies with HOLD instead of
> > REJECT. The examples in https://www.postfwd.org/ratelimits.html use
> > REJECT, but they can be changed to use HOLD instead.
> >
> > Wietse
>
