On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> }
> } 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....
While the whole list looks undoubtedly reasonable, I would give the
parameters already present in other mailers special treatment,
because people would expect them to be present.
("my MTA is better than yours because...")
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