[imp] Scalability of rate-limiting?

[Wil Cooley]

Andrew Morgan wrote:

> We use rate-limiting here to control accounts that have been phished (a
> fairly regular occurrence).  I think our installation is very similar in
> size to yours...  We peak around 3k concurrent IMAP connections (most
> from Webmail) and have 3 webmail frontends.  We are still using the
> Datatree though.
> 
> Our limit is set to 500 messages per 24 hours, for all users.  I've
> never tried setting per-user limits.

Let me make sure I'm not reading this wrong... this limit is 500
messages per user per 24 hours, right? That's not 500 messages per 24
hours for the whole webmail installation (I can't imagine that you'd
have fewer than 10k messages per day.)

What about recipients per message?

Wil

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