sendmail greet_pause feature

[Roger Jochem]

Dag Wieers repository has only sendmail 8.12, or I'm missing it.

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/sendmail/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: sendmail greet_pause feature


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> You should be able to find a good RPM of this, so you don't build it  
> from source and put everything in odd locations. Try http:// 
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> On 1 Feb 2006, at 10:26, Roger Jochem wrote:
> 
>> I'm using the rpm version of sendmail in my centos-3 box (sendmail  
>> 8.12) and I would like to upgrade to sendmail 8.13 to use this  
>> feature, that seems really great. Is there some problem I should be  
>> aware, or the tar.gz version found at sendmail.org would work fine  
>> on my machine? Anyone using 8.13 at centos-3 or some similar OS?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Roger Jochem
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anders Andersson, IT"  
>> <anders.andersson at ltkalmar.se>
>> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:01 AM
>> Subject: RE: sendmail greet_pause feature
>>
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
>>>> Of Jim Holland
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:12 AM
>>>> To: MailScanner mailing list
>>>> Subject: OT: sendmail greet_pause feature
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps other sendmail users know all about this, but I have
>>>> only looked at it for the first time.
>>>>
>>>> I run sendmail 8.13.1 and have decided to implement the
>>>> greet_pause feature for the first time (after seeing that it
>>>> is a default option in Debian installations).  This requires
>>>> a specified delay after connection, which can be network
>>>> specific, before a client system is allowed to send any SMTP
>>>> commands.  Any client that breaks normal SMTP protocols by
>>>> trying to force commands before receiving the go-ahead is
>>>> immediately disconnected.  This seems to distinguish very
>>>> successfully between genuine mailers and spammers/viruses
>>>> that are not RFC-compliant.
>>>>
>>>> Using a 5 second delay I have found that the system has
>>>> blocked over 3200 connections in the first 24 hours I used
>>>> it.  The client systems were all typical of spammers, with
>>>> adsl/ppp/dhcp/dialup/cable/cpe type hostnames or no PTR
>>>> record at all.  I found only four systems in the blocked
>>>> group that looked as if they were genuine.  On further
>>>> investigation I found that earlier log records for some of
>>>> those sites indicated behaviour typical of virus infections
>>>> in any case.
>>>
>>> I second that, thoguh I raised mine to 25 sec just for the fun of  
>>> it. I
>>> started low but raised it by 5 sec eeverytime and its been running
>>> smooth. So far no one complained and the ones we have a great
>>> mailexchange with been added to acces list
>>>
>>> /Anders
>>>
>>>>
>>>> To implement the feature:
>>>>
>>>> Add the following to the sendmail.mc file:
>>>>
>>>> FEATURE(`greet_pause', `5000')dnl 5 seconds
>>>>
>>>> Rebuild sendmail and restart MailScanner:
>>>>
>>>> m4 < sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
>>>> service MailScanner restart
>>>>
>>>> Then specific entries for client hostname, domain, IP address
>>>> or subnet can be put in the access file:
>>>>
>>>> GreetPause:my.domain    0
>>>> GreetPause:example.com  5000
>>>> GreetPause:10.1.2       2000
>>>> GreetPause:127.0.0.1    0
>>>>
>>>> Definitely worth a look I would say, as it blocks large
>>>> numbers of spammers before they are allowed to send any data,
>>>> with very low risk of blocking genuine systems.  It even
>>>> seems to allow genuine mail from infected systems to be
>>>> accepted while blocking viruses from those same systems
>>>> before the DATA phase - as many viruses seem to behave rather
>>>> impolitely :-)
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Jim Holland
>>>> System Administrator
>>>> MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
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