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Author: Mark de Vries
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To: Nick0la
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Limit rate of message dispatch in Exim but accept all inbound messages
Nick0la wrote:
> Hi all, Exim Pros,
>
> I want to configure Exim MTA to accept all inbound messages but limit the
> rate at which it can dispatch messages to downstream consumers.


And by "rate" you mean something like "number of messages per second"?
You can't configure that in exim.

The best you can do is limit the number of concurrent deliveries. But
because exim does not have a single process responsible for delivering
(queued) messages even that is not trivial, you need to set a few options.

Start by reading the documentations for the "remote_max_parallel". It
pretty much explains what you need to do.

It probably also a good idea to read up on "The SMTP transport" -
http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch30.html.
It's "serialize_hosts" option may interest you.

Bye,
Mark.