Are you using Spamdyke? If so, depending upon configuration, it does several DNS queries prior to passing the connection to qmail-smtpd.
On mine, it does reverse DNS lookup, checks several DNS blacklists, etc. That could easily account for the delayed smtp response. You could test this by temporarily deactivating Spamdyke and seeing if that speeds it up. -Andy On 12/31/2019 4:41 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote: > Hmm. > > MXToolbox reports that it takes 6 seconds for my server to respond to > SMTP connections. > > spamdyke's 'greeting-delay-secs' is set to 6 seconds. > > Well, there's a coincidence. ;-) > > Thanks, Eric -- should have thought of that. > > Anyone have any intuitions about how effective greeting-delay is as an > anti-spam tactic, and whether it has any impact on real mail? > > Angus > > > > On 2019-12-31 04:57, Eric Broch wrote: >> If you have spamdyke installed it may have a timer >> (greeting-delay-secs=) to inhibit spammers. >> >> On 12/31/2019 2:54 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote: >>> I'm testing a newly-built mail server, and the tool at: >>> >>> https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx >>> >>> reports very slow connection and transaction times (approx. 6 >>> seconds and 8 seconds respectively). The server is on a reasonably >>> powerful and very lightly-loaded VM. >>> >>> Are these times typical? (I notice that my existing server is >>> similarly slow). Does qmailtoaster tarpit incoming connections as an >>> anti-spam measure? Or does this indicate a possible problem >>> somewhere that I ought to fix? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Angus >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>> [email protected] >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
