}
} Wouldn't it be nice to restrict incoming SMTP
} connections on the basis of load average, not just
} maximum connection count? Number of simultaneous
} connections often says little about the general load.
There are a series of system dependant things that it would be nice
to measure and affect exim's behaviour dependant on the
measurements...
This includes
load average
available disk space
number of processes
day of the week
wind direction
sys admin mood....
the last 3 are a little facecious, but then people might have a good
reason for limiting mail acceptance/delivery based on some apparently
very odd reasoning!
However this is building everything into exim. Maybe some form of
general parameter gathering interface could be added...? This might
enable the whole system portability aspect of load average and disk
space etc to be side stepped - maybe in a similar way to INN
Nigel.
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