On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:22 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 13:11 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> With GreetPause I am already causing a small delay which works very
> well for those spammers/bots which are in violation of the standards.
> However, I have carefully singled out all major email MX outbound
> hosts for 0 greet pause. But greet pause is an SMTP delay waiting not
> a rejection as gray listsing does. Graylisting leaves the mail delay
> in the hands of the other end - I prefer the control in my hands.
A concern that I have is: Do you have more than one / enough SMTP
server processes? If you get hit with a scad of spam, each one pausing
the transaction, do you DoS yourself? (Denial of Service.)
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greylisting is actually lightweight and will reduce the load
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> I want email coming through fast - when I'm on the phone with
> someone and they say i just sent you the xxx .. i dont want to wait
> for it.
I agree. It's highly annoying to conduct business with someone, and
while you're chatting with them on the phone, waiting and waiting, and
waiting, for that e-mail they sent /some/ time ago, the goodwill dries
up.
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yeah but if it's important either...
have them send a dummy e-mail, wait 5 minutes and then send the
important e-mail or wait 15 minutes. Hardly a big deal.
Craig
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