Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Slow SMTPD [was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] smtpd_check_rules hacking

[Dean Staff]

On 18 Jan 2001, at 17:09, Gordon Rowell wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:58:20PM -0500, Dean Staff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote: > [...] > > FYI, I tryied the same queue and send test on my
> e-smith 4.0.1 > box and had no problem. > > Could this problem be an
> issue of 4.0.1's qmail-smtpd vs 4.1's > obtuse-smtpd?
> 
> Yes. We added a patch to obtuse-smtpd to make life a bit harder for
> SPAMmers by artificially slowing down the SMTP connection as the
> number of recipients increases. This should _not_ cause your client to
> crash:-)
The client itself didn't crash, but it would issue a connection time-
out error.
> 
> The results you describe are consistent with that causing problems for
> your mail client. I'll back out the patch and make an update
> available.

Great!

> 
> Thanks for the detailed report and testing.
> 
No problemo....
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