On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 12:40 -0400, Steve Friedman wrote: > The general consensus on the postfix mailing idea is that Greet Pause is a > bad idea (TM). What it ends up doing is (a) delay legitimate mail and (b) > DoS your own server as you now take longer to handle legitimate mail. Any > mail source that would fail greet pause will also fail numerous other > checks that don't inconvenience your intended users (and your own system). How does it work? If it pauses the current connection with that server, independently of any other system trying to send you mail, then only one thing at a time gets delayed, so it shouldn't be a DOS. But if sendmail pauses completely while one thing talks to it, and won't do anything else until that task is completed, yes, I see potential problems. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
