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Re: [Christmas Gift for free] 50% Spam reduction !

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Subject: Re: [Christmas Gift for free] 50% Spam reduction !
From: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:09:06 -0500
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Erwin Hoffmann wrote:
Hi,

introducing a delay in qmail-smtpd EHLO greeting by about 30 secs will
reduce the amount of spam emails by typically 50%.

In case you believe it or even if don't believe it, use my 5 line patch for
qmail-smtpd.c available here:

http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/qmail.html

For the german reading community follow that URL:

http://www.heise.de/ix/news/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=11829816&forum_id=1
09974

Actually, I couldn't believe it by myself; but it works high efficient.

I believe it, we no longer have qmail on our borders, but Sendmail's greet-pause had the same effect for us. Of course the bot-nets will evolve, but until then it is a nice respite from the constant pounding.

DAve


regards and merry x-mas.
--eh.



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for other non-international holidays, but nothing for
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