How to Delay Sending 5000 Emails

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nicsopon

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Hello

During the new year, the server has too much emails in list.

This problems occured when all boards send greeting mails at the same time. Each board has about 3000-10000 members.

I would like to setup a limitation of each emails with this specification :

Delay 20 minutes for each 20 emails for the each email account

Please inform how I can set it up.

Thanks & Best Regards
 
That's not what the poster is looking for.

What the poster is looking for is a way to delay outgoing emails.

What happens if exim refuses to accept outgoing emails from your board software? Will it back up gracefully, will it return the email somewhere? Will it dump it?

Otherwise what you need is a program to force all emails into the queue and only release on a schedule.

I don't know any way to do this with exim, but I'm not really the expert everyone thinks I am. Perhaps asking on the exim-users list will afford an answer.

While most email list programs offer this, I don't think that solution is going to work either.

Jeff
 
Thanks for your valuable comments and answer.

Limit emails per user per day is a good idea at the peak time.

If I have the name of the software it will be easier to start with. I will try in the exim-users.

THanks & Best Regards
 
frankc420 said:
IMO exim knows how to distribute the mail, just let it run it's course.
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That's not the point, Frank. Many providers will either delay or refuse emails outright if they're flooded with emails. Exim will send emails as fast as it can, and if it has a few hundred emails (for hotmail, for example), it will send them to hotmail as fast as it can. In fact, in the case of one mailing, it will even try to send them all at once.

Which will probably cause hotmail to put them all in the incoming spambox.

It's often important to meter outgoing email to individual domains.

Jeff
 
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