Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / May 2004

Greetings all,

I'm a registered, paid-for user of Eudora Pro 6.1 for OS X, and I
received a request from an individual who runs a mail-->news gateway to
which I am an extremely frequent poster.

The newsgroup, news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, is a repository of spam
used for cross-matching and researching various things involving spam.
All of my messages are posted there.

However, due to the hugely increasing spamloads I've been receiving
(700+ messages a day, 96% spam), the gateway has been under increasing
stress from my submissions. Due to the nature of checking email (and
reporting spam) at intervals throughout the day, there are some rather
large "bursts" of submission, which evidently cripple the mail-->news
gateway. The outgoing mailserver that I use for this purpose is aware of
the volume of messages, their purpose, and the volume does not
negatively affect their systems.

Needless to say, the administrator of the mail-->news gateway has
requested that I make my submissions a little less "bursty". It being
his system, and me being a good net-neighbor am prone to agree.

Is there any way to have Eudora space out my outgoing mail so that no
more than, say, 120 messages are transmitted in a single hour? Thus, if
I were receiving 700 messages a day, I could space them out over a good
amount of the day (with maybe batches of 20 messages being sent every 10
minutes).

I am aware that this could be done with various hackery to the
mailserver itself, but I would prefer to keep this at the client level,
if at all possible.

Any ideas as to how to make this work? If this can't be done with
Eudora, does anyone else have any suggestions?