Re: Throttling mail sending in Postfix

robm wrote:
> I found this and I am not quite sure what it does
> http://www.postfix.org/smtp-source.1.html
>
> but its some sort of testing/tuning program fir postfix, it has a
> parameter:
> *-w* /interval/ Wait a fixed time between messages. Suspending one
> thread does not affect other delivery threads.
>
> but if you need to modify/bypass the MTA just to do this bulk mail-out
> you might be better off just scripting the sending of the email.

We are considering this. The app that does the mail sending doesn't have
the smarts or configurability that would be helpful, but it might be
possible to have it dump the mail job and for us to write a script that
sends them out in batches over night or over several days. Why does this
start to seem reminiscent of UUCP? I'll have to go to Scott for the
details. I think he was still using UUCP somewhere until very recently ;-).

        Les...

> Les Klassen Hamm wrote:
>
>> I have a client that needs to send some bulk email (no really, they
>> are not spammers, it's a legitimate research contract) but the
>> software that generates the mail just blasts everything to the smtp
>> server (no batching, timing, throttling).
>>
>> Is there any reasonable way in postfix to slow down, batch or throttle
>> the outgoing mail. I can find a transport setting about concurrency,
>> but I'm hoping for some better tuning options. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Les...
>>
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Received on Tue Nov 28 22:30:17 2006