Owen O' Shaughnessy wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Owen O' Shaughnessy > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> having a bad smtp day and I want to check my courier's tarpit, but am >> damned if I can find the documentation for it, any pointers? >> > > Nobody else knows how to admin the tarpit either?? > > I've ran a google search against courier-mta.org for tar, pit, and > tarpit and zero hits relating to tarpitting come back. > > Does anyone know the commands I run to see what addresses are tar > pitted?? it would be a great help to progress in this quest to > identify serious lags in my smtp on a machine thats got perfect DNS > resolution for affected machines! >
Tarpitting affects connections, not addresses. I think what you are looking for is the backscatter blacklist. >From the "courier" man page: "courier show all" lists all E-mail addresses currently blacklisted for backscatter. "courier clear u...@domain" manually clears <u...@domain> from the backscatter blacklist. "courier clear all" removes all addresses from the backscatter blacklist. When the Courier mail server encounters a delivery failure to an E-mail address the Courier mail server may stop accepting any more messages to the same address in order to minimize generation of so-called "backscatter bounces". This does not occur in all cases, see "Backscatter suppresion" in the Courier mail server´s installation instructions for more information. The Courier mail server will resume accepting messages to the blacklisted address if the delivery attempt originally encountered a temporary failure, and a subsequent retry succesfully delivered the message, or if more than two hours elapsed since the delivery failure. Use the "clear" command to manually clear the E-mail address from the backscatter blacklist. This may be useful if the undeliverable message is manually removed from the Courier mail server´s mail queue, using the "cancel" command. Even if the message is cancelled, the Courier mail server will continue to refuse accepting mail for this address for up to two hours. The "clear" command can be use to reenable mail acceptance before then. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
