Throttle outgoing mail by domain in exim

Solution 1:

I have found this thread on the exim mailing list.

They discuss different hacks and workarounds for throtteling including

  • writing a shell script to manually sleep and deliver the messages (with exim -M)
  • postfix as a "smarthost" which apearently can do what we want
  • configuring a router that just sleeps for some seconds and then passes the message to the next router