message_rate_limit Didn't Limit The Message Rate

[mhammett]

I set a message_rate_limit of 1 to have one outgoing message per minute. I composed ten emails and sent them in rapid succession. They were all received within 2 minutes.

What's wrong?

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

I set a message_rate_limit of 1 to have one outgoing message per minute. I composed ten emails and sent them in rapid succession. They were all received within 2 minutes.

did you sent them within one minute? (this is the timeframe in which the limit is computed - see http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit)

 

[mhammett]

did you sent them within one minute? (this is the timeframe in which the limit is computed - see http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit)

I sent all ten emails within 1 minute.

 

[mhammett]

It is all going through another mail server that then relays outbound messages through PMG.