Re: [Dovecot] Throttle New Connections?

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