On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:
Does anyone know if there are legitimate mailers that connect and send before the answering host completes it's smtp 220 greeting? The reason I ask is that the qpsmtpd project has an option enabled by default that drops inbound connections if they send too soon. I'm not sure if this is possible or desirable with sendmail as the front end but I'd like to know if it is always spam senders that do this and the people on this list probably have as much experience with broken-but-legitimate mailer behavior as anyone...
The sendmail option is greet_pause. This was discussed on spam-l recently. I think the overall thought was that it mostly worked, but there were a few cases of legitimate mailers that did tend to jump the gun and needed whitelisting. -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uga enterprise information technology services core services support ------------------------------------------- "In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit...." _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
