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SMTP greet_pause

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Thu, 24 May 2007 15:02:10 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, May 24, 2007 14:08, sladewig wrote:
Tim Boyer said the following, On 05/24/2007 01:03 PM:
I'm using the greet_pause feature in Sendmail 8.13 to delay giving the
smtp
banner by a couple of seconds.  It's a great anti-spam tool.
I setup my sendmail access file to not have a greeting pause for my
internal machines (including hobbit).

GreetPause:127.0.0.1            0
GreetPause:(IP of hobbit)       0
AHA!  Thanks.  I expected the "expect" behavior of waiting for the 220
string before sending the command strings.  This is a great tip.