Many thanks for that. It's given me some new ideas to follow up.
Tony Finch wrote:
> 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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