[Mimedefang] OT: Sendmail greet_pause feature

Michael Faurot mfaurot at atww.org
Tue Jun 22 16:05:34 EDT 2004


In article <BCFDB569.4A83%jeff at stikman.com> you wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

I set mine to 10,000 (10 seconds) as well.  Seems to be working okay,
but it's only been half a day.

I've already seen several log messages indicating it's doing its job.
So far, I've seen no evidence to indicate this is hindering transfer of
mail from desirable sources.



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