On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Drexx Laggui wrote: .. > > 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. > > It's not dangerous per se. It'll be just quite inconvenient for the sys > admin to fix if he/she is not aware of this firewall feature and that > the mail servers are experience very high latency traffic.
it's not dangerous, in fact it's good :) postfix has a feature to reduce the allowed idle time of mail connections. most high-latency mail senders are trojaned boxes anyway. also, as a matter of policy ISP's should force their end-users to relay thru the ISP's mail relays. that makes mail work better, and reduces spam being sent thru the ISP. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- 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
