Re: [exim] Limiting incoming connections on a per-domain bas…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: W B Hacker
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Limiting incoming connections on a per-domain basis
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, W B Hacker wrote:

> > Not true for Exim provided that both the virtual servers are using the
> > same IP address (as you have stated that they are). Independent of the
> > domains, Exim sorts outgoing addresses according to the host lists they
> > route to, and uses a single connection for those that are going to the
> > same hosts (up to the max_rcpt limit, and subject to having the same
> > added headers, rewritten return-path, etc, etc. that is, when the
> > message bodies are identical).
> >
>
> I am sure you are correct about the code, but doubt that conglomeration /
> batching is even operative unless there is enough near-simultaneous remote_smtp
> traffic to have accumulate in queue at all.


I should have made it clear that what I wrote above applies to ONE
message with multiple recipients. Exim doesn't ever consider multiple
messages together at this level.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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