Many thanks for that. It's given me some new ideas to follow up.
Tony Finch wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Steve Sargent wrote: > >>We have some users who want to send very large volumes of messages to >>the entire student population of the college. They would be sending >>something like 15,000 messages in one hit. We are worried that this >>could be a performance hit on our cetral relays, so we would like to >>develop an exim configuration that would act as a 'bulk submission' >>service. > > > It's probably easier to implement the rate-limiting on your central > relays, e.g. > > defer hosts = +bulkmail_hosts > ratelimit = 100 / 10s > > Tony. -- Steve Sargent, Vox +44 020 7882 3220, Fax +44 020 8980 2001 QMUL Computing Services, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW page: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/~cgaa160/index.html PIPER _|_ PA28R ____/___\___ ___________[=o=]___________ ARROW e/ o \e -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
