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Subject: Re: Delay Before Connect
From: Scott Geiger <scott@bcmediagroup.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:06:09 -0500
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I gave this a try with a delay of 30 seconds, which was widely suggested. It definitely did kill spam, but I ran into a problem with it. Emails from paypal/ebay were not coming in (I have clients that use paypal accounts and it was fairly important they get those emails). Also charter.net had problems as well. Those are just the ones that I was able to diagnose and find, could be others for all I know.

Scott Geiger


Quoting Matt <mhoppes@gmail.com>:

I've heard that one way to combat spammers is to put a little delay
prior to the mail server "picking up".. that is.. perhaps a 10 or 15
second delay before the initial 'HELO'.   Can anyone speak to this...
that is, does it work?  And if it does, how have you made it work with
qmail?





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