[Gllug] exim rate-limiting

[David Cantrell]

I've recently had some problems with my DSL connection, meaning that when I
manage to reconnect, I get several metric shitloads of mail come flooding
in all at once.  The resulting three zillion procmail and spamassassin
processes is ... problematic, as the machine slows to a crawl as it swaps
like a bastard.

Now, for various reasons I don't want to run spamd/spamc, so any suggestion
along those lines will be cheerfully ignored.

Is there any way of getting exim to limit the number of local deliveries
it will attempt concurrently - and hence the number of procmails it will
kick off at once?  I would like it to queue incoming mail for later local
delivery if necessary.

I'm quite certain that exim will let me do this, and I'm even certain that
it is documented, but the trouble with exim is that whilst the documentation
is very complete, it is impossible to find what uyo want unless you already
know what it's called :-)

-- 
David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

   It doesn't matter to me if someone else's computer is faster because
   I know my system could smash theirs flat if it fell over on it.
        -- (with apologies to Brian Chase)


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