Incoming Mail Throttle

Hello. My company sends out a news letter occasionally via a bulk-mail
service. More than a thousand of the addresses that the newsletter is
going to are on our own email server. Whenever we send out the
newsletter our server freezes. I believe this is due to the system
trying to handle too much incoming mail at once. How can I set a
throttle on incoming mail so that the server only accepts what it can
handle and waits to accept the rest?

Hallo Simpolman,

Simpolman schrieb/wrote:

> My company sends out a news letter occasionally via a bulk-mail
> service. More than a thousand of the addresses that the newsletter is
> going to are on our own email server. Whenever we send out the
> newsletter our server freezes.

Kind of self-DOS. ;-)

> I believe this is due to the system
> trying to handle too much incoming mail at once. How can I set a
> throttle on incoming mail so that the server only accepts what it can
> handle and waits to accept the rest?

Search for exim's configuration options with "max" in their name.

And take care that the bulk-mail service doesn't send out all these
messages at the same time.

Gruss,
Christian
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