Re: {bb} smtp greet_pause

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@barrett.com.au>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:18:25AM +0100, John Hodson (john@WorldHQ.net) wrote:
> I am using FEATURE(`greet_pause', `700') in sendmail, to deal with
> "slammer" style spam engines.
> 
> Basically this introduces a 700 millisecond delay between connection, and
> the sendmail greeting message. If the remote client sends data before
> that greeting, then it is not implementing the smtp protocol correctly,
> and the server responds by not accepting any further data from that
> client.
> 
> Problem is, BB looks (behaves) like a slammer!

... but yo know the greet pause *IS* working ;-)

Into the access file put in

GreetPause:localhost 0
GreetPause:127.0.0.1 0
GreetPause:YOUR_DOMAIN 0

and you should be fine.


jobst



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