Is e-smith's smtpd tarpitting ??
Rob.
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From: "Dean Staff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 7:28 AM
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] Slow SMTPD [was Re: [e-smith-devinfo]
smtpd_check_rules hacking
> I did some testing in regards to the slow smtp connection to a
> 4.1b3 server. Here are my observations;
>
> Using Pegasus Mail as the mail client, I sent 21 messages to the
> same recipient under 2 different settings.
> 1: I set the client to send each message immediately and hold it in
> queue. I then chose 21 messages from one of my mail folders and
> chose to forward all messages to the same recipient, but as
> individual messages. As each message was prepared it was sent
> to the smtp box. As each message took olny a fraction of a
> second to send, I had no problems.
>
> 2: I set the client to queue all messages to send later. I then chose
> the same 21 messages and chose to forward all messages to the
> same recipient, but as individual messages. once all messages
> were ready, I attempted to connect to the smtp box. The first 10
> messages were sent with out a problem, but message 11 took
> longer that all the previous 10 combined, as did 12, 13 & 14. The
> whole connection died part way through sending message 15.
>
> I replated this with a different set of messages, just in case there
> was something wrong with the ones I originaly used, but I got the
> same basic results.
>
> I checked the maillog (I can supply it if you wish) but there was
> nothing that stood out. Both sessions started a smtpd session and
> then passed the message on to smtpfwdd to deliver to the
> destination server. The only difference I noticed was that for the
> 1st test each message was handled by a separate smtpd session,
> while the 2nd test (queue and send all at once) all message where
> handled by the same smtpd session.
>
> FYI, I tryied the same queue and send test on my e-smith 4.0.1
> box and had no problem.
>
> Could this problem be an issue of 4.0.1's qmail-smtpd vs 4.1's
> obtuse-smtpd?
>
> I'll let you ponder now...
> Dean
>
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