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.

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