[Mailman-Users] Re: MTAs

[John W. Baxter]

On 3/26/2005 5:53, "Derrick Hudson" <dman at dman13.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Fast-forward a couple years to another time I moved, and didn't have
> any network for a week or two.  I again made that router my backup MX.
> This time it was running postfix, and I told postfix to accept at most
> 2 simultaneous smtp connections.  During that time the machine had no
> problems, and I was even able to read my mail remotely while I was at
> a conference (albeit slowly).

You could have told Exim to do that (Exim 2 or 3 or 4...I don't remember
Exim 1 well enough to say...we didn't use it long).  I don't think it can
limit the number of things injected via command line calls to
"sendmail"...but that wasn't the problem (Mailman can make it the problem).

Thank you very much for jumping in.  It was very useful to hear from someone
with solid knowledge of both Postfix and Exim.

  --John