Re: Delay Before Connect

[Matt <mhoppes@gmail.com>]

I am using Jon Lewis' program: http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/smtp-delay.c

We have seen a DRASTIC reduction in spam.   We've gone from our 8 mail
servers being 3/4 loaded to them being about 1/4 loaded, and so far no
false positives.   Amazing!

On 1/23/07, Scott Geiger <scott@bcmediagroup.com> wrote:
> 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?
> >