----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Shupp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [toaster] Help: question regarding limiting bandwith of outbound emails
> Joe Young wrote: > > > Bill, > > will this help with outbound emails as well? The company I am > > working with have a 256K upload connection and they will send a 8meg > > email to 2 or 3 addresses at different locations. When they send the > > email, it will slow down their internet browsing. I know that they > > should upgrade thier DSL service, but they can't. > > > I'm unaware of how to limit ONLY qmail-remote process. My advice is to in mangle/OUTGOING mark packets generated by qmail-remote (check it's uid - grep qmailr /etc/passwd) with iptables -m owner --uid-owner , then qos them with tc filter > use databytes to limit qmail-smtpd message sizes, and then force all > incoming mail to this server to go through smtp (i.e. tell local clients > like squirrelmail to use smtp rather than the sendmail wrapper to that > the size limit is enforced). > > Regards, > > Bill
