OT: GreetPause delay

[Doc Schneider]

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William Burns wrote:
> Kevin:
>
> Does the GreetPause delay feature automatically build (or respect) a
> whitelist, or have you introduced a delay for any server that connects
> to yours?
>
> I can imagine that heavily loaded sendmail servers might have issues if
> this becomes standard practice. If your mail server gets 1 outbound
> message every second, and if each delivery attempt results in a 10
> second delay (at one prompt) then you'll have a mimnimum of 10 idle
> sendmail processes always occupying memory just for outbound mail.
>
> -Bill
>
> Kevin Miller wrote:
>
>> Stephen Swaney wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Kevin,
>>>
>>> What are you using for your GreetPause delay?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 10 seconds.  Default was 15, but I didn't want to be too aggressive
>> initially.  See a lot of dsl/cable hits and a lot of addresses w/o any
>> reverse resolution.  Also saw a couple that surprised me like some
>> yahoo.com
>> box.  Haven't whitelisted anything yet, but probably should go through it
>> with a fine toothed comb shortly...
>>

I think this is wat you're asking.

This goes into your /etc/mail/access file

GreetPause:127.0.0.1    0
GreetPause:192.168.1    0

You can vary the times for servers as you see fit.

-Doc

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