Re: [exim] connection defer depending on load average

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Lähettäjä: Renaud Allard
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Vastaanottaja: Marten Lehmann
Kopio: exim-users
Aihe: Re: [exim] connection defer depending on load average


Marten Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> how can I defer connections (giving a 4xx error) to our smtp server depending
> on the system load?
>
> I currently have an option that only queues messages instead of delivering
> them immediately, but this causes more pain than it helps, because while
> mailboxes exceeding their limit would just cause a 5xx error at smtp time on
> any new message, now cause a bounce per message.
>


Have a look at
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch14.html#SECID105
More specifically: smtp_load_reserve