Allen Coates:
> GIVEN THAT, when the Postscreen internal SMTP engine is invoked, the
> decision to reject the message has already been made;
> It seems to me that this is an opportunity to tar-pit the (bad) remote
> host, diminishing spam throughput, and eroding the host's useful life-span.

postscreen could hand off a connection to some other daemon.

Keeping connections open *inside* postscreen is definitely not an
option. That would limit postcreen's scalability. With a tarpit-only
daemon, failure in that daemon would not affect other connections.

        Wietse

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