OT Sendmail configuration question

[Mike Kercher]

Jim Dickenson wrote:
> Some time ago there was talk on this list about using a relatively
> new option in sendmail. As I recall there is some option that allows
> one to delay the response to a helo or ehlo line. The theory was that
> spammers could not afford to wait when sending messages and they
> would not wait for the delay time.
>
> Can someone remind me what the command was.
>
> I tried to search the archive but not knowing exactly what I am
> searching for I did not find the past messages.
>
> Thanks,

I think you may be talking about the greet_pause feature of sendmail 8.13.x

Mike

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