[Dovecot] Question about ionice & dovecot-deliver
Patrick Domack
patrickdk at patrickdk.com
Sun Oct 16 02:46:21 EEST 2011
This sounds like a postfix issue more than dovecot.
Its easy to make a slow deliever transport for postfix, many people do
so when sending emails to hotmail/yahoo.
Sounds like that solution would work for you, just applied to the
dovecot transport instead.
Quoting Maria Arrea <maria_arrea at gmx.com>:
> Hello
>
> We are running dovecot 2.0.13 with mdbox on RHEL 5.7 x64, ext4
> filesystem. Sometimes we have a big load increase because a mailing
> list server send 16.000 32k messages in less than 3 minutes. We want
> to "slow down" delivery, we prefer slow delivery instead of logging
> out webmail users.
>
> I have the following line en /etc/postfix/master.cf:
>
> flags=DRhu user=userid argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${user}
>
> And in /etc/postfix/main.cf
>
> mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>
> I would like to add ionice to the equation, prefixing
> /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n6 before the deliver lines in postfix config.
> Is there any other way of slowing down delivery speed vs imap access?
>
> Regards
>
> Maria
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