[WLUG] OT: election messages

[Tom Anderson]

From: "Dave Lovelace" <dave at firstcomp.biz>
>> Yup.  I delay the initial greeting message by 20 seconds.  This is
>> RFC-compliant -- in fact, the RFCs specifically mention that some hosts 
>> do
>> it for load control.  Anyone who starts sending commands before they see 
>> the
>> greeting gets tossed.  I've tried delays elsewhere in the SMTP dialogue, 
>> but
>> the connection delay is by far the most effective.

Can you do this with Sendmail without using an inetd wrapper?

Tom