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Author: Larry Rosenman
Date:  
To: 'Matthew Newton', 'Marc Perkel'
CC: exim-users
Subject: RE: [exim] At what point is the initial connect greeting sent?
Matthew Newton wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:56:53AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
>> If I want to put an initial 2 second delay in the initial creeting
>> that is sent before the user sends HELO - where would I put it?
>> Trying to trap spammers who send data two quickly without waiting
>> for the proper server responses.
>


Also, enforcing SMTP Sync will help here, I get all sorts of idiots hitting
My server and not waiting.

Feb 25 00:07:33 lerami exim[16923]: SMTP protocol violation: synchronization
err
or (input sent without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from
H=[218.2.
54.132] input=""

So that may already be happening for you.

(this is with 4.50, but has been that way for a long time :) )



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