Many ISPs have limits on the amount of emails received in a period of time, not respecting this will reduce the reputation of the sender. Mailman 2 doesn’t support throttling, though there’re some patches in the wild adding this feature. Exim supports rate limiting incoming emails, but not emails going out, though it may be… Continue reading Throttling outbound emails with Mailman & Exim
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Backup MX for Mailman, with Exim
This week a hard disk from one of my servers broke. It has been replaced with just 3 minutes of downtime (kudos to OVH), and right now the RAID array is being rebuilt. Since this is the first time this happens to me, and the server is running a production mailman service, I decided to… Continue reading Backup MX for Mailman, with Exim
Gentoo: How to debug Exim
If you have some problem with exim, and the logs are not enough, edit the /etc/conf.d/exim file, and add the debugging option (-d): /etc/conf.d/exim# Command-line options for running eximEXIM_OPTS=”-bd -q15m -d” Then restart exim: # /etc/init.d/exim restart The exim daemon will not be detached from the console, the debug information will be printed to the… Continue reading Gentoo: How to debug Exim