On 23/02/11 19:13, Victor Duchovni wrote:
A server configured with miniscule message rate limits will suffer the
folly of its system administrator. Postfix reacts reasonably gracefully
to concurrency controls, but rate controls are evil and in my view one
should not support the folly of the fools who implement them.

If the receiving site is not Yahoo (too big to ignore or re-educate),
it is best if they learn to turn off damaging policies in order to stop
losing legitimate mail. Delaying non-spam is futile, focus on blocking
spam, rate limits further degrade the Internet email infrastructure.

I agree completely with the sentiment, however unfortunately the universities are paying customers. We will try to re-educate them, but in the meantime we have to work around their restrictions.

Only by manually specifying transport table entries with a common nexthop
for all the domains.

Interesting. Thanks, Victor - this has been most enlightening. I will have a go with your suggestion.


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