>From the spamd man page:
GREYLISTING
When run in greylisting mode, spamd will run in the normal mode for
any
addresses blacklisted by spamd-setup(8). Connections from
addresses not
blacklisted by spamd-setup(8) will be considered for greylisting.
Such
connections will not be stuttered at (though see the -S option
above)
-S secs
Stutter at greylisted connections for the specified amount
of
seconds, after which the connection is not stuttered at.
De-
faults to 10.
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 08:03 +0059, Han Boetes wrote:
> So I was looking through the spamd logs and noticed that the usual
> connection time for spamd is quite low.
>
> Nov 12 07:48:56 haddock spamd[15350]: 70.19.196.10: disconnected after 3
> seconds.
> Nov 12 07:48:58 haddock spamd[15350]: 211.55.172.149: disconnected after 3
> seconds.
> Nov 12 07:49:11 haddock spamd[15350]: 87.14.244.249: disconnected after 5
> seconds.
> Nov 12 07:49:14 haddock spamd[15350]: 121.141.166.94: disconnected after 3
> seconds.
> Nov 12 07:49:19 haddock spamd[15350]: 70.19.196.10: disconnected after 3
> seconds.
> Nov 12 07:49:23 haddock spamd[15350]: 81.190.109.130: disconnected after 3
> seconds.
> Nov 12 07:49:26 haddock spamd[15350]: 59.21.1.177: disconnected after 3
> seconds.
> Nov 12 07:49:57 haddock spamd[15350]: 127.0.0.1: disconnected after 25
> seconds.
>
>
> Especially if you find claims like from http://www.benzedrine.cx/relaydb.html
>
> Aug 24 23:10:13 spamd: 213.30.181.11: disconnected after 2864 seconds.
>
>
> So I connected to spamdb:
>
> ~% nc localhost 8025
> 220 haddock ESMTP spamd IP-based SPAM blocker; Sun Nov 12 08:01:56 2006
> helo dood
> 250 Hello, spam sender. Pleased to be wasting your time.
>
>
> And to my surprise only the first 10 chars are delayed with the
> standard delay of 1 second. The rest is returned at full speed.
> Is this OK? Shouldn't the whole connection be delayed?
>
>
> I'm running spamd like this:
>
> /usr/libexec/spamd -v -G7:4:864 -r451 -g
>
>
>
> # Han
