Re: [exim] simple question about rate limiting

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Sergei Gerasenko
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] simple question about rate limiting
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Sergei Gerasenko wrote:
>
> How do I limit my outgoing rate per host?


Exim's architecture makes this difficult. Try using the serialize_hosts
option on the smtp transport, which doesn't exactly limit the rate but it
does restrict the amount of parallelism.

> Also, I probably want the outgoing messages that are over the threshold
> to be queued until the they can be sent.


Ideally the recipient would use 450 replies to delay senders that exceed a
rate limit.

Tony.
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