Re: [exim] per recipient domain throttling

> From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@???>

> Welcome to university mailer life, where you will find plenty of
> (long-term) users who say 'forward all of my incoming mail to GMail, yes
> I mean *all* of it, even the mail that your anti-spam system thinks is spam'.
>
> Sometimes this is because your users are hitting their problem with
> handy but blunt tools and you can help by giving them an easy option
> to eg forward all non-spam (or at least all things you think aren't
> spam; GMail may disagree and frequently does for us). Sometimes this is
> because your users don't trust your mail system's anti-spam work and
> they want GMail to do it instead. Sometimes this is because users plain
> don't trust your mail system and want your mail system to have as little
> to do with their email as possible.
>
> (Some people in industry are now saying 'just make a policy that you
> can't do that'. This doesn't work at universities for any number of
> reasons. If you can get the political backing to push it hard enough,
> you'll find that people basically abandon using their university email
> address and your professors and graduate students start just telling
> people to use their GMail or whatever addresses[*].)

You can explain to them a faster way to get all mail to Gmail:
Settings - Acconts and Import -
"Check mail from other accounts (using POP3)".
So Gmail pulls from your POP3 server instead of you trying to push to Gmail MX.