"prioritize" traffic with MailScanner?

[Ron E.]

Thanks Mike -

How about doing this for incoming traffic? I'm afraid I'm not familiar
with doing this - is this something that is done using the MTA or directly
in Mailscanner?

Regards,

Ron

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Mike Kercher wrote:

> I have 5 queues on my boxen and MailScanner does the sorting for me via
> ruleset.  For mailing lists (which are announce only), I disable virus AND
> spam checks via rulesets.  I just excluded the From: address for these
> checks.  I have weekly mailings that go out to 15K+ people in about an hour.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ron E.
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 3:50 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: "prioritize" traffic with MailScanner?
> >
> > 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
> >
>