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

[aichains <aichains@nonstophate.com>]

Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> kbajwa wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > Please clear something for me. On this post under the heading "50% Spam
> > reduction", there has been two suggestions:
> >
> > (1) Apply a patch by Erwin Hoffman: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/qmail.html
> >
> > (2) The same results can be obtained by running something like:
> >
> >         tcpserver 0 25 sh -c "sleep $GREETDELAY; exec qmail-smtpd"
> >
> > Which one is the preferred method?
> >
> > It seems that (2) is easy! If it is, where is this line put into the qmail?
> well, you just modify your startup script to include part of the line
> above... if you have any shell scripting knowledge whatsoever, it should
> be fairly easy for you to figure out how to make the proper modifications.
>
> there's a third that doesn't require patching qmail and is more powerful
> than the sleep, and that is greetdelay:
>
> http://alkemio.org/software/greetdelay/
>
> I've been using it for a while and it works exactly as advertised.  I
> can't comment on its effectiveness at stopping spam, but it does what it
> says it does :)
>
> -Jeremy



best solution ive found:  http://www.lewis.org/smtp-delay/


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