Hi,

I was considering implementing greet-pause on my Sendmail server. It's a
mail server for an nationwide ISP who uses a wholesaler for it's dialup
numbers.

In reading about greet-pause, I read this: Set GreetPause localhost: 0 to
prevent the pause from applying to connections from your local machine,
which would otherwise be annoying when you're sending mail. If you're doing
this on a server which accepts mail from multiple machines, you'll want to
do the same for the whole local network.

How do folks deal with greet-pause then on a mailserver with outsourced
dialups? Would I need to "whitelist" hundreds of possible ip addresses from
dialup address pools in order to use greet-pause?

Thanks,

Lisa Casey

On Sep 3, 11:24 am, "Lisa Casey" wrote:

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> How do folks deal with greet-pause then on a mailserver with outsourced
> dialups? Would I need to "whitelist" hundreds of possible ip addresses from
> dialup address pools in order to use greet-pause?

No. The answer was not covered in the other replies, you use the
access database to white list the subnetwork.

It is quite usual to build sendmail with a default greet pause, and
then use access db to set no greet pause for the local host and your
LAN. It's all explained in the README in the cf directory of the
source.
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René Berber