On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 14:35:05 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 4 at 11:08 PM, quoth Sami Farin:
> >On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:50:32 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>Because of some recent spammer behavior (looks like
> >>reverse-tarpitting), I'm considering reducing my timoutsmtpd value
> >
> >Are you using bannerdelay feature?
>
> Yes; but that's not what's keeping connections open. The offending
If you hadn't been using it, I would have said that doing so might
cut down number of these spambots (without waiting timeoutsmtpd
seconds).
> connections are averaging around 1200 seconds in length (i.e. the
They do not send any commands?
> timeoutsmtpd default), which is way longer than my initial delay
> (which maxes out at 26 seconds).
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