"prioritize" traffic with MailScanner?

Derek Winkler dwinkler at ALGORITHMICS.COM
Wed Mar 31 22:54:36 IST 2004


There's already a custom function, MultipleQueueDir, which changes the
outgoing mail queue based on spam score, you may want to take a look at
this.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Ron E.
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:50 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
>



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