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How can I throttle IIS in terms of mails per second? and if that's not the case, since I can't find any parameters for such a feature.

Will SMTP IIS automatically queue and resend mail if the initial attempt to send results in a "454 Throttling failure: Maximum sending rate exceeded" response from the Amazon SES SMTP server?

Update: We performed several test, 2 SMTP servers sending 5K mails each, 300 byte small (small size to boost the send rate) to see how the IIS SMTP server reacts. Both logs indicate 454 throttling errors from Aws Ses (1500 errs in total), however no mails were lost, all 10K mails were received.

This leads us to the maybe preliminary conclusion that IIS SMTP handles the 454 throttling response very well.

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  • Are you sure a "454 throttling error" still delivers the email? AWS documentation says otherwise: If you attempt to send an email after reaching your maximum sending rate, Amazon SES drops the message and doesn't attempt to redeliver it
    – Doug S
    Oct 9, 2018 at 0:29
  • Hi Doug, Aws sends the 454, and does not receive the emaIl from IIS. IIS decides to resend. "From the outside" it seems that SES does not send, but actually it doesn't even receives. On the other hand IIS, receives the 454, and decides to try again later.
    – Paul
    Oct 9, 2018 at 5:29

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https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/657bb5ee-e48b-4a6d-9e2f-ac49b959a1bc.mspx?mfr=true is how to do it in IIS6. As you didn't state which version of IIS you are using. This rate limits the number of messages per connection. I think there are other settings in the same location that should help you out.

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  • Nope #connections, network latency, message size, there is no formula to fit msg/sec with those settings and variables
    – Paul
    Oct 26, 2016 at 4:40
  • Hi Paul, just found this. blogs.technet.microsoft.com/bspieth/2013/02/18/…
    – Tim Haintz
    Oct 26, 2016 at 20:27
  • $virtualSMTPServer = Get-WmiObject IISSmtpServerSetting - namespace “ROOT\MicrosoftIISv2” | Where-Object { $_.name -like “SmtpSVC/1” # Set maximum message size (in bytes) $virtualSMTPServer.MaxMessageSize = ($incomingEMailMaxMessageSize * 1024) # Disable session size limit $virtualSMTPServer.MaxSessionSize = 0 # Set maximum number of recipients $virtualSMTPServer.MaxRecipients = 0 $virtualSMTPServer.MaxBatchedMessages = 0
    – Tim Haintz
    Oct 26, 2016 at 20:28
  • What version of IIS are you using?
    – Tim Haintz
    Oct 26, 2016 at 20:35
  • iis smtp 6 (that is the current version)
    – Paul
    Oct 27, 2016 at 7:56

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