[WBEL-users] Rate Limiting]

[William Warren]

http://www.postfix.org/rate.html

courtesy of google..do not know if this will help or not

Shackmaster wrote:

> 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
> 
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> 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.
>>
>> What do you have ?
>> I have qmail/vpopmail/spamassassin/qmail-scanner
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>> Mário Gamito
>>
>> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 16:19, Shackmaster wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Looking for suggestions here...
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a suggestion? Ideally I would like to rate limit 
>>> SMTP (ports 25 & 3535) seperately from POP (110 & 995).
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Ladar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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