[Mimedefang] OT: Sendmail greet_pause feature

[Jeff Grossman]

on 6/22/04 9:11 AM, Michael Faurot at mfaurot at atww.org wrote:

>> I have to read more about it, but it would be nice to have the ability to
>> whitelist some ip's from the greeting delay.
> 
>> From cf/README:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> greet_pause     Adds the greet_pause ruleset which enables open proxy
>                 and SMTP slamming protection.  The feature can take an
>                 argument specifying the milliseconds to wait:
> 
>                         FEATURE(`greet_pause', `5000')  dnl 5 seconds
> 
>                 If FEATURE(`access_db') is enabled, an access database
>                 lookup with the GreetPause tag is done using client
>                 hostname, domain, IP address, or subnet to determine the
>                 pause time:
> 
>                         GreetPause:my.domain    0
>                         GreetPause:example.com  5000
>                         GreetPause:10.1.2       2000
>                         GreetPause:127.0.0.1    0
> 
>                 When using FEATURE(`access_db'), the optional
>                 FEATURE(`greet_pause') argument becomes the default if
>                 nothing is found in the access database.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On a related note, what are people setting their timeout value to for
> greet_pause?

Great, exactly what I was looking for.  I currently have my setting at 10000
milliseconds.  I don't want to go to crazy because of some discussion on the
comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup about mail servers with low timeout values.

Jeff
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