[WBEL-users] Rate Limiting]

[Shackmaster]

We use postfix/qpopper/amavis (clamd & spmassain) and process about 10k

messages a day. With a CPU average of 10%. (P4 1.5 + 768)

Does postfix support rate limiting? I don't remember reading anything 
about it, but I could be wrong.

-- Ladar



http://www.nerdshack.com

Mario Gamito wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Exactly the same problem here too.
>A mail server with about a month, and just 1 hour ago the server reached
>the point of not responding at all. Even on the console. 
>I have to cold reboot it.
>The statistics shows nothing special at that time.
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>What do you have ?
>I have qmail/vpopmail/spamassassin/qmail-scanner
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>Warm Regards,
>Mário Gamito
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>On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 16:19, Shackmaster wrote:
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>>Looking for suggestions here...
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>>I have a mail server setup, that has been running on WBEL rock steady 
>>for about a month now. The problem is that as use has grown, it has 
>>begun to periodically spike and fill the T1 pipe that it sits on. We 
>>plan to move the server onto an OC3 Sept 1st, but would like to rate 
>>limit the traffic in the meantime.
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>>Does anyone have a suggestion? Ideally I would like to rate limit SMTP 
>>(ports 25 & 3535) seperately from POP (110 & 995).
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>>-- Ladar
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