>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:53:27 -0600,
>> Greg Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
G> Normally it keeps up pretty good, but when there's heavy spamming it can
G> start to get behind with between 10,000 and 20,000 Email in the queue.
If spamming is the main problem, have you looked into tarpitting?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:32:36 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tarpitting
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There was some discussion a while back about tarpitting. If you don't
know what that is (I didn't when it first came up), it's the process
of inserting a small sleep in an SMTP session for each RCPT TO after
some set number of RCPT TOs. The idea is to thwart spammers who would
hand your SMTP server a single message with a long list of RCPT TOs.
[...]
See http://www.palomine.net/qmail/tarpit.patch.
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Karl Vogel
ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA
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