著者: Peter Bowyer 日付: To: Exim Users Mailing List 題目: Re: [exim] DENY vs. DROP
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:35:47 -0500, Dan Shoop <shoop@???> wrote:
> It's my understanding that DROP just drops the connection, while DENY
> issues an error and allows the connection to stay up until the
> session ends. The former is what you'd do if you you knew you had a
> spammer, but the latter is more civil
That's a correct description of the behaviour, but I believe it's an
incorrect conclusion. Dropping the connection can cause some brands of
spamware to retry very hard indeed, whereas issuing a simple deny will
cause it to move on quickly.
