"prioritize" traffic with MailScanner?

[Ron E.]

Hm, I don't think outgoing is normally the problem - incoming is where
things backlog.

I'm not sure I know what's meant and how to create these queues - is this
something that's done in the MTA?

Thanks

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> At a very simple level, you can use a ruleset to calculate the outgoing
> queue dir and put some addresses in 1 queue and some in another. Run a MTA
> queue runner on each of the queues so that deliveries are retried, and you
> can put a much slower time interval on the queue runner that is handling
> the mailing list outbound traffic.
>
> At 22:49 31/03/2004, you wrote:
> >Dear All,
> >
> >I'm wondering if someone already knows how to do this or has thought of
> >it. I have run into a situation where occasionally I'll have a user that
> >sends out of a lot of mail such as a newsletter to a bunch of subscribers
> >or some such. Bounces inevitably occur after such a mailing and
> >MailScanner inevitably gets backlogged.
> >
> >My idea for this is some type of ruleset where mail inbound for a certain
> >list of addresses gets "low priority" and as such is put aside in favor of
> >all the other traffic until the server is not as busy.
> >
> >Would be interested in any thoughts on how to do this.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Ron
>
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