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Re: Throttling outbound mail rates on a per-user basis

From: Cami (camismweb.co.za)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 09:55:32 CST


Wietse Venema wrote:

>>>In that case, however, you can't do per-recipient accounting,
>>>since mail can have multiple recipients, and the smtpd
>>>by design does not store all recipients in memory.
>>
>>Unless i'm mistaken, this is for sender based accounting..
>>So your original idea would work as intended..
>
> Oh, but other people might want to use the same hooks to limit the
> recipient rate (like, limit the number of non-bounces per unit
> time, and limit the number of bounce messages per unit time).

True.. In which case that would not be possible and the
current (ESMTP) design will have to do.. Is it worth the
effort adding in that hook for sender accounting?

Cami