Re: Slowing down legitimate MTAs

Maria Arrea:
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> Hello.
>
> Our mailboxes box is a RHEL 5.7 x64 running postfix 2.3.3 . We
> also have a system (out of control) running mailman that send us
> a lot of messages in a short amount of time (23.000 messages of
> 16KB in 2-3 minutes). We want to slow down that mailing list box.

Then, fix the problem on the sending machine.

> I have been reading about "Postfix Perfomance Tuning" here:
>
> http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html#server_tips
>
>
> But in this web page I can read "IMPORTANT: These limits must not
> be used to regulate legitimate traffic: mail will suffer grotesque
> delays if you do so." What is the proper way to slow down a
> legitimate MTA? The mailman box uses PIPELINING and sends the
> mail with 100 recipients each.

The proper way to slow down the sender is to do it at the sender side.

        Wietse

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