[hobbit] SMTP greet_pause

Hobbit User hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net
Thu May 24 21:02:10 CEST 2007


On Thu, May 24, 2007 14:08, sladewig wrote:
> Tim Boyer said the following, On 05/24/2007 01:03 PM:
>> I'm using the greet_pause feature in Sendmail 8.13 to delay giving the
>> smtp
>> banner by a couple of seconds.  It's a great anti-spam tool.
>
> I setup my sendmail access file to not have a greeting pause for my
> internal machines (including hobbit).
>
> GreetPause:127.0.0.1            0
> GreetPause:(IP of hobbit)       0

AHA!  Thanks.  I expected the "expect" behavior of waiting for the 220
string before sending the command strings.  This is a great tip.



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