Re: [CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-13 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Luke S Crawford wrote: considering just how many people use greylisting, this is likely a bad idea.Greylisting works by rejecting the first message from a new server with a 4xx (temporary) error code. If the server tries again immediately or never tries again, it's probably a spammer.

Re: [CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-13 Thread Luke S Crawford
Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really don't understand why people just don't turn off their mailservers if they don't want mail from others. Most of us have come close.I get north of 500 spams a day unprotected. I've been using the same email since '01. I know many others

RE: [CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
I really don't understand why people just don't turn off their mailservers if they don't want mail from others. Most of us have come close.I get north of 500 spams a day unprotected. I've been using the same email since '01. I know many others have it worse than I do.

[CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-12 Thread Jerry Geis
I made a little file with a From:, To: and body. I execute the command cat file.txt | sendmail -t -O MinQueueAge=1m thinking that the message would try every minute to send instead of the default 30m. (if the initial attempt failed of course). This doesnt seem to have any effect? In the

Re: [CentOS] question on sending mail with 5.2

2008-09-12 Thread Luke S Crawford
Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the event I have an important email and I want it try perhaps every minute (1minute) to send the email how do I accomplish this from the sendmail command line? considering just how many people use greylisting, this is likely a bad idea.Greylisting