Postfix - Limit Bandwidth

[Tim Fenn]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:38:36PM -0500, Ki Song wrote:
> Is there a way to limit the bandwidth used by postfix when sending/receiving
> messages?
> 
> The reason is that we sent out a newsletter, and the performance is
> excellent, but it is using up all our bandwidth.
> 

Check out the LARTC:

http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.html

The script I base my router on is at:

http://www.knowplace.org/pages/howtos/traffic_shaping_with_linux.php

so I just mark packets in iptables, and shape the queue with tc.
AFAIK, this only works with upload queues.

HTH,
Tim

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