OT - Greylisting

[James L. Day]

Steve,

I ran the test that Julian sent and the welcome prompt was delayed about
5 seconds.  When I added the host I ran the test from to "access.db",
the prompt appeared almost immediately.  So, greet_delay does appear to
work.

I ran the following two commands and came up empty:

MailFilter:/var/log# grep "rejecting commands" *
MailFilter:/var/log# grep greeting *

I have Sendmail checking against a couple of blacklists in rbldnsd and
that has been blocking about 98% of what comes in.  Is it possible that
Sendmail is doing the RBL lookup and refusing the message before
greet_delay kicks in?

Thanks,
Lynn

Stephen Swaney wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of James L. Day
>> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 12:40 PM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: OT - Greylisting (was: Re: gOCR SpamAssassin plugin)
>>
>> How can I tell if Sendmail's greetpause is working?  I don't see any
>> evidence in the log files..
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lynn
>>
>>     
>
> You'll see tons of messages similar to:
>
> Aug  6 11:25:00 mta10 sendmail[7675]: k76FP0mR007675: rejecting commands
> from dsl-201-102-42-43.prod-infinitum.com.mx [201.102.42.43] due to
> pre-greeting traffic
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen Swaney
> Fort Systems Ltd.
> stephen.swaney at fsl.com
> www.fsl.com
>