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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Larry Rosenman
CC: exim-users, 'Matthew Newton'
Subject: Re: [exim] At what point is the initial connect greeting sent?


Larry Rosenman wrote:

>Matthew Newton wrote:
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>>On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:56:53AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>
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>Also, enforcing SMTP Sync will help here, I get all sorts of idiots hitting
>My server and not waiting.
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>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=""
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>So that may already be happening for you.
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>(this is with 4.50, but has been that way for a long time :) )
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Yeah - thats the idea - get rid of spammers with a 2 second delay.

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