Re: Sendmail's greet_pause
On 29.01.07 11:57, Account for Debian group mail wrote:
> We have been using Sendmail's feature "greet_pause" for quit some time and
> have been happy with this feature. But as of late I'm wondering if this
> feature is having a problem on our mail server.
>
> I've been seeing a LOT of mail servers rejected because "due to
> pre-greeting traffic". What is strange is I have seen rejection on a
> mail server one time then the next time it is OK with the same mail
> server. And some of these servers I would not suspect of slamming.
I still see many such errors. I think they are viruses and bots trying to
spam you. I haven't heard any complaint about mail lost because of this
problem. When I look at those hosts, they still seem as some infected
machines...
> Has anyone else noticed these problems with sendmail's greet_pause
> feature? Any suggestions (besides use another MTA) would be appreciated.
I don't think you should anything. It's very nice anti-spam feature of
sendmail.
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