On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 06:28:45AM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote:
> Another way to go is to put the offending host into your smtp.rules or
> what it's called in your setup with
> 10.0.1.1:deny
> so they can't even connect.
This is a bad idea, IMHO.
In fact they can connect, eat up one tcpserver connection for a short
time, before the connection will be terminated by tcpserver.
You will get connection attempts over connection attempts and the remote host
will retry every message until it expires (i.e. usually one week).
As other mailservers don't use the friendlich quadratic retry algorithm
that qmail uses, but rather aggressive short retry times you may run into
severe problems.
\Maex
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