Re: Earlytalking and tarpitting

2007-11-07 Thread Jose Luis Martinez
You'll have to disable "PIPELINING" in the ehlo response. We could still be stalling the connection on the HELO/EHLO and DATA commands if PIPELINING is enabled (or that is what I assume from http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1854). On the other hand, has anybody tried to put the "earlytalking"

Re: Earlytalking and tarpitting

2007-10-19 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 19-Oct-07, at 2:22 PM, Jose Luis Martinez wrote: It looks like spammers are learning, and that they wait to pipe all the message, adapting to earlytalker filters, making you have to upper the wait on the helo. Is this intuition correct? Yes. It's quite a recent change too - they updated

Re: Earlytalking and tarpitting

2007-10-19 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Jose Luis Martinez wrote: I think this could be a good thing, because we would be making spammers talk SMTP, without piping the message after waiting a while. We have not seen this functionality in any plugin, so CAPSiDE is contributing this tarpit module to

Earlytalking and tarpitting

2007-10-19 Thread Jose Luis Martinez
Hello, I've been hanging around on this newsgroup for a couple of months, but never contributed. I'm from a consulting company at Spain (CAPSiDE), and we are studying on implementing qpsmtpd in a couple of projects. Currently we are beta-testing it, and like it very much. Please note that we