Re: rate limiting

2016-04-09 Thread Casey Connor
Thanks, Curtis. We have taken all that in to consideration. I'll spare you the long story, but we are testing somewhat specific things. :-) -c If you are trying to simulate a very busy mailserver, then you should be concerned about connections to it from multiple hosts per second most sending

Re: rate limiting

2016-04-07 Thread Casey Connor
We are sending on the order of 50-200+ messages per second in this stress test, so the delay between messages could be smaller than .005 seconds. Inject 50-200 messages per second into Postfix, and mail will not be delivered faster than it comes in (unless a backlog develops and clears when do

Re: rate limiting

2016-04-07 Thread Casey Connor
Thank you -- will it accept decimal seconds? We are sending on the order of 50-200+ messages per second in this stress test, so the delay between messages could be smaller than .005 seconds. On 04/07/2016 06:19 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: See: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#default_tran

rate limiting

2016-04-07 Thread Casey Connor
Hello -- we're sending from a postfix instance as part of our stress-testing infrastructure. We need to limit the rate of outbound messages per second: sometimes to a particular slow rate, sometimes to a medium speed, sometimes "as fast as possible". I found no easy way to do that; have I mi

disabling cleanup?

2016-02-27 Thread Casey Connor
[sorry if this is a repeat -- I thought I submitted this message but it has not appeared after ~24 hours] We have a VM running postfix that receives all emails, analyzes the stream, and "discard"'s 100% of messages via a custom milter in smtpd (i.e. a pre-queue milter). In other words, it ne