A favour from people with busy servers please...

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:11:03PM +0100, Kevin Spicer wrote:
> I'm working on a possible new feature for MailScanner-MRTG and I need
> some information, particularly from users of Exim or Postfix who have
> very busy servers.  I need to know if these MTA's log anything if/when
> they stop connecting SMTP connections due to excessive load, what they
> log during the period they are rejecting (e.g. do they log each failed
> connection, a regular summary, nothing ?) and what they log when they
> start accepting connections again.
>
> The most useful thing would be some log examples.  A chunk of log (with
> addresses obfuscated if appropriate) would be the tops as it would
> provide me something to test against.
>
> Please feel free to email me directly, all help gratefully received.

I hope someone will correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I know
postfix doesn't stop due to load.

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