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: Null recipient address accepted - wrongly IMO

2007-10-19 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Charlie Brady wrote: Anyway, will some or all of the patch be accepted and committed? No, we'll bikeshed it to death first! :-) Thanks for sticking through with it. See my other mail, we'll get you setup so you can commit it yourself. - ask -- http://de

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

Re: Null recipient address accepted - wrongly IMO

2007-10-19 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, David Nicol wrote: FWIW, later on http://cr.yp.to/im/address.html Bernstein says "Do not use an empty box part; it cannot appear in SMTP requests." That's actually an open question, due to what appears to be a drafting error in RFC2821. In 4.1.2 Command Argument Syntax,