On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:15:58PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:03:54PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:40:17PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > > > > I think I'm also going to add an option to just stall the SMTP > > > connection and never return ok (I don't plan to use that feature > > > though) > > > > If once can specify the duration of the stall, that'd be quite fun... > > That's obviously the idea, although I'll probably have a hard time getting > over the RFC violations this introduces... > > If you do that, you'd better have secondary MXes that do the same thing than > you though....
And the wish has now become reality as of this morning http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html * Allow for stalling SMTP sessions from spammers (caution) Note that the patch could be improved, but it's working. I'm also curious of how much spam software actually retries sending if the receipient sends a 450 or (in the case of this patch) stalls the connection for seemingly ever... (I can't run this on my server yet because my secondary MX isn't yet running sa-exim) Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
