> I think anvil is a poor fit for the problem description.
> Anvil monitors plant-wide rates, and may trigger client
> backoff, while the OP wants a single connection re-use
> limit, which does not require an external counting process,
> each SMTP server alrwady has all the data it needs locally.
Noel, Wietse, Victor,
Thanks for your replies. Here goes the description of my problem:
I have a pool of postfix servers receiving SMTP traffic from an upstream MTA
via a load-balancer. Both the MTA and the LB are out of my control; the MTA
may not be a postfix, and the LB may not be using a "lea
>> I would like to force my Postfix SMTP server to disconnect from
>> time to time, in order to prevent its clients from reusing the
>> same connection for too long or for too many transactions.
>
> If you want to hang up a connection then you need an smtpd
> policy daemon that sends a 421 reply.
,
Diego Castillo
