Re: [exim] Controlling the number of deliveries

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Steve Sargent
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Controlling the number of deliveries
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Steve Sargent wrote:
>
> We have some users who want to send very large volumes of messages to
> the entire student population of the college. They would be sending
> something like 15,000 messages in one hit. We are worried that this
> could be a performance hit on our cetral relays, so we would like to
> develop an exim configuration that would act as a 'bulk submission'
> service.


It's probably easier to implement the rate-limiting on your central
relays, e.g.

  defer hosts = +bulkmail_hosts
        ratelimit = 100 / 10s


Tony.
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