Re: stop broken incoming mail connects?

[Scott Schwartz]

"Scott D. Yelich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| The mint.net one is trying every 3 seconds, and the other
| one tries not quite so often -- but the problem is that
| *every* machine that is refused, is repeatedly trying to
| reconnect and send.  I really wanna tell them to stop it
| in a not so polite way.

Instead of hanging up on them, you could try accepting the connection,
but tell smtpd to answer with a fatal 5xx reply.  Invoking it with
DATABYTES=1 is the easiest way to do that, unless you've installed the
BOUNCEMAIL patch or are using rblsmtpd.  (It's probably easier to use
tcpserver than to figure out how to make tcpd do what you want.)