[BlueOnyx:26900] Re: sendmail pipelining question

Taco Scargo taco at blueonyx.nl
Fri Apr 12 09:42:30 -05 2024


Have you checked out using postfix?

> On 12 Apr 2024, at 16:13, Larry Smith <lesmith at ecsis.net> wrote:
> 
> Taco,
> 
>  I am seeing more and more hosts that send the entire
> message in one burst leaving no chance to answer "no
> such user" or any other error or non acceptance and then
> our server is left trying to bounce the message after the
> fact.  Yes, primarily spammers tricks, but one I can avoid
> by disabling pipelining.  From my perspective I see no
> really good, valid reason for having it enabled.  All my
> non BlueOnyx boxes have it disabled and work just fine.
> (and have less spam in the queue trying to be returned
> to bogus or invalid addresses).
> 
> -- 
> Larry Smith
> lesmith at ecsis.net
> 
> On Fri April 12 2024 09:01, Taco Scargo via Blueonyx wrote:
>> Hi Larry,
>> 
>> What is your concern?
>> 
>> Taco
>> 
>>> On 12 Apr 2024, at 15:45, Larry Smith via Blueonyx
>>> <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Noticed yesterday that all the newer BlueOnyx boxes
>>> have pipelining enabled in the sendmail config.  Previously
>>> (older boxes) this was disabled.  Curious as to what
>>> the reasons were for enabling it, and how to disable it again.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Larry Smith
>>> lesmith at ecsis.net
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