On Thursday, May 26, 2005, 13:36:19, Len Conrad wrote:
>>So if Imail actually used tarpitting it'd be a detriment.
>
> yes, ANY MX is at risk of hurting itself with tarpitting, unless the 
> tarpitting agent is carefully designed not to spend a full SMTP session per 
> tarpit but uses some kind of dummy placeholder tarpitting agent.  Even that 
> agent needs a tcp socket per tarpitted IP, so tarpitting exhausting the tcp 
> sockets resource has to be addressed.

An example of such an agent is OpenBSD's spamd - spam deferral daemon
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd

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