Kenneth Porter wrote: > You can also impose this cost on spammers by enabling the GreetPause > feature in the more recent versions of sendmail. This tells sendmail not > to answer right away when receiving a connection, and to drop the > connection if anything is received before the greeting is sent out. This > punishes "slammer" spammers who push the whole SMTP conversation through > and then disconnect. It also ensures that every connection from an > unknown sender takes a minimum amount of time. You can add exceptions in > your access database for your customers and frequent correspondents. For > example, this exception drops the GreetPause to zero for my LAN (example > is for 10.123/16): > > GreetPause:10.123 0
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