[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: OFF TOPIC! by golly..(spam)

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:28, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 2/23/06 5:11:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>
>gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:
>>I  know of more than one mail server that imposes a
>>30 second delay in  the connect, and only if they try again after
>> that 30 seconds has  expired will the message be accepted for
>> delivery.  That will cut  it 90% right there cause they won't stick
>> around and waste the time.  That's real easy to do in qmail, no idea
>> how hard it is  for other server software though.
>
>Cool, but how do legit emailers deal with this delay?
>If they try again 5 or 10 minutes later, does this count as the re-try
> or  as a new attempt, starting the cycle all over again?
>--Mike K.

IIRC Mike, he keeps a list of attempts for 30 minutes so anytime inside 
that 30 minutes is a retry, and therefore probably a legit email src so 
its accepted.

And how have you been, its been a while?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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