On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 10:27:10 -0400
Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to get Mailman to behave itself as a *broadcast* list
> manager (rather than for discussion), and I need to throttle the
> *actual mail* that way (x thousand per day).
> Where might be the best place to put something like that?
While it gets fiddly, its not too difiicult to do this at the MTA
level with a sufficiently configurable MTA (ie Exim). Essentially,
just have an Exim filter that rewrites all broacast mail actually
being addressed to a local user, spool it off locally, and then have
a cronjob which sucks N thousand out per day from the top of the
mbox and re-slaps them into the MTA with a custom header added
(which causes them to skip the prior filter).
You could also use a double ganged MTA approach (second MTA running
on a high port -- I used to tdo this with SMail/UUCP) but without
thinking about it ore than I want to now, I'm not sure that this
would be easier.
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J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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