[Dovecot] Throttle New Connections?

[Sean Kamath]

On Nov 20, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Eli Sand wrote:
> I host my own email and I have about 5 accounts (I've had more in  
> the past)
> I check.  The instant I set a throttle on connections per second I  
> had tons
> of errors come up when I would check my mail since I couldn't  
> successfully
> log in for all accounts.
>
> What you'd possibly be more interested in if you're hosting mail for  
> many
> people is some way to throttle based on account, though that would  
> require
> peeking at the protocol data and such.

My throttling is based on IP, and it took some experimentation to dial  
it down to a useful number.  Most of my users are on DSL or dialup  
lines, and not behind corporate firewalls with aggregation.

Sean