On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:35:09PM -0700, Sean Peterson wrote:
> Right, I recall reading that from the archives. How does one go about
> either,
>
> denying the problem mailer from sending email
Others have pointed out that you can use tcpserver to deny that
connection if that's possible (it might be a customer dialup address).
> or
>
> changing qmail to deal with it in the right way?
What's the "right way"? qmail deals with it by giving the other end
1200 seconds (by default, but check the qmail-smtpd manpage) to send data,
if it doesn't see any data in that time, qmail-smtpd exits, qmail-queue
exits, the mess/* file is removed.
Essentially you have the problem of deciding whether it's a good
client, a bad client or a slow client. In many cases, they are
indistingushable.
Regards.
