From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: robert@timetraveller.org (Robert Brockway)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:38:28 +1000 (AEST)
Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run?
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Robert Brockway wrote:
>
>> I do some additional tricks like requring the sending MTA to hold the 
>> connection open for (IIRC) 10 seconds before I will accept traffic. This 
>> drives up spammers costs (and everyone elses :( ) but definitely helps.
>
> Err, it's not the spammer who's paying for it these days...
>
> Or are you talking about greet pause, and not tarpitting?  Either way, both 
> are effective.

I'm doing greet pause.  Just checked, it's currently set to 15s.

Rob