On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 10:27:10 -0400 Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:

I'm trying to get Mailman to behave itself as a *broadcast* list manager (rather than for discussion), and I need to throttle the *actual mail* that way (x thousand per day).

Where might be the best place to put something like that?

While it gets fiddly, its not too difiicult to do this at the MTA level with a sufficiently configurable MTA (ie Exim). Essentially, just have an Exim filter that rewrites all broacast mail actually being addressed to a local user, spool it off locally, and then have a cronjob which sucks N thousand out per day from the top of the mbox and re-slaps them into the MTA with a custom header added (which causes them to skip the prior filter).

You could also use a double ganged MTA approach (second MTA running on a high port -- I used to tdo this with SMail/UUCP) but without thinking about it ore than I want to now, I'm not sure that this would be easier.

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