Thanks, I appreciated the help. I will let you know what I can find out.
Thanks again.
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Sean Peterson
System Administrator
Valley Internet Providers Ltd.
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>
> 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.
