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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: "Matthew R. Dempsky" <mrd@alkemio.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:20:15 -0600
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On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 04:09:57PM -0500, John Simpson wrote:
> you can take the same thing one step further... many spam programs  
> send their first command without waiting for the server to send the  
> initial banner. this is a violation of RFC 2821 section 3.2, and RFC  
> 821 section 4.3, both of which say that the client is supposed to  
> wait for the server's greeting before sending anything.

My greetdelay package allows this without patching qmail.

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