I use these timeouts on a 5k a day mail server. Got original timeouts from list that. Works for me. Your mileage may vary. Before I had timeouts modified I had too many slaves just hanging around on my system.
Violates RFC. I have never had any complainst in the 8 months or so I have been using it. #max file size accepted is 50m dnl TIMEOUTS (MANY OF THESE)... define(`confTO_INITIAL', `10s') define(`confTO_CONNECT', `30s') define(`confTO_ICONNECT', `8s') dnl set next 4 to 1m for more conservative settings define(`confTO_HELO', `30s') define(`confTO_MAIL', `30s') define(`confTO_RCPT', `30s') define(`confTO_DATAINIT', `30s') define(`confTO_DATABLOCK', `1m') define(`confTO_DATAFINAL', `3m') define(`confTO_RESET', `1m') define(`confTO_QUIT', `1m') define(`confTO_MISC', `1m') define(`confTO_COMMAND', `1m') dnl #define(`confTO_IDENT', `1m') define(`confTO_IDENT', `1s') define(`confTO_FILEOPEN', `1m') define(`confTO_CONTROL', `1m') define(`confTO_HOSTSTATUS', `3m') dnl DOS stuff define(`confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE', `8') define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl dnl security stuff dnl WARNING dnl this is a mail relay so sendmail can ONLY WRITE TO /var define(`confSAFE_FILE_ENV',`/var')dnl define(`confMAX_HEADERS_LENGTH', `16384') define(`confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH', `256/128') define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `12') dnl 50meg max size define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `50485760')dnl Cahya Wirawan said: > Hi, > I have implemented greylisting in filter_begin, it works great, > but there is still an issue because there are some spam software > that keep the connection open after they get temporary failure message. > The sendmail default timeout to wait a command (confTO_COMMAND) is > 1 hour, so if I set the max mimedefang processes and sendmail children > to 50 (I think this is not too small for 30k mails/day), the mail relay > will be often out of processes and can't accept any new mail because > Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
