Yep, a known limitation of SMSSMTP. I think someone posted a few months back a very slick tweak of Black Ice that did effective tarpitting as a workaround. Check the archives.
--Dev Friday, August 26, 2005, 6:21:24 AM, you wrote: tavc> A request from a fellow SAV SMTP user, tavc> pleasecomplain to Symantec, I have tried to plead tavc> for this function from them forsometime to no tavc> avail. tavc> tavc> From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tavc> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tavc> Behalf Of Mike Odryna tavc> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:53AM tavc> To: [email protected] tavc> Subject: [IMail Forum] tavc> Tarpittingrecommendations needed tavc> tavc> Weare getting killed with dictionary attacks. tavc> Thisis ourcurrent setup. tavc> Allinbound mail goes through a Symantec tavc> Mail Security for SMTP server running thenewest tavc> version. Then the mail is forwarded toour IMAIL tavc> serverfor delivery. IMail server is running tavc> version8.2. We have the IMail server set to drop tavc> theconnection after 3invalid-user email attempts. tavc> Theproblem that I see is this. If tavc> IMailhad the ability totarpit, it wouldtarpit my tavc> SMTP Gateway not the offending tavc> user. Symantecsoftware does not have a tarpitting tavc> feature yet. tavc> Isthere any software, keeping cost inmind, tavc> whichwould tarpitmail on mySymantec server? Or tavc> could you suggest abetter lowcost solution? tavc> MikeOdryna tavc> Lakespeed.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
