Solution: If you have the traffic to fill the pipe... get a bigger pipe.. up
it to a 256k.. that might help more then trying to limit exim. This is more
of a network issues than an exim issue..
Later,
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Ridge" <ridgey@???>
To: <exim-users-request@???>; <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 6:23 PM
Subject: [Exim] Help - Controlling bandwidth used by exim
> We have an ISP that has 3 remotes POPs in 3 other towns all linking back
to
> the main server, all the remote pops having been using the main server via
> 128 and 64 k VPN Frame Relay links for email and auth. Now that they are
> expanding this is putting too much load on the links and casuing massive
> congestion and dropouts / timeouts.
>
> What I have done is install mail servers at each remote end, because all
the
> pops use the same @domain for email, i have set exim at the main server to
> do a learch of 3 text files, if a user is in a list it forwards mail onto
> the appropriate mail server, this has made pop retrieval much better but
the
> problem now is that if someone is recieving an attachment of say 5mb, when
> forwarding the mail onto the remote POP it lags the link fully for the
time
> needed to send over a 64 - 128 link. My question is, can i set exim at
the
> main end to only use say 3kps to send email to the remote pops only?? Any
> help appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Nathan
>
>
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