On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:38:26AM -0800, Drexx Laggui wrote: > You mean disabling telnet connections to your mail server's TCP/25? Not > by Sendmail alone. The firewall made by Stonesoft disables TCP/25 > connections after a specified time of non-activity --a simple way of > guessing that connections to the mail server are made manually, because > the required SMTP activity per unit of time, is not there.
This is dangerous. This might prevent receiving mail from sites that have a high latency relative to the server that's doing it. Non-activity does not always mean an inactive connection, it could also mean high latency. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
