Tilman Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 2009-11-23 21:38 schrieb -: >> I too limit connections to one, and one per 5 minutes. Should >> remotes violate that, they get two warnings (ICMP admin-prohibited), >> and if they're too eager, they fall into my TCP TARPIT. > > I wonder. Do you have any data on how typical mail server software > reacts to that sort of policy? What does, for example, a Sendmail or > Exchange server in default configuration do if it tries to deliver two > mails to a destination server, the first one succeeds, and the second > one fails with "administratively prohibited"?
AFAIK sendmail does not distinguish between reasons why establishing TCP connection have failed. Have I missed something? -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : [email protected] A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth. -- R. Stallman _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
