Re: Spam submission rating

[Eugene Crosser <crosser@rol.ru>]

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 23:08, Mariano Absatz wrote:

> > Speaking of which, we are currently planning to deploy a thing that
> > would collect "RCPT TO" rate by peer's IP address in realtime and
> > degrade the service accordingly (a la "tarpit").  Anyone already done
> > that with Zmailer?
> Nope... but are definitively interested in it... hoy do you plan to keep the rate info?  
> in-core? in a database? collecting info in a log and parsing it every xxx seconds?

In-core, collected directly from smtpserver over UDP.  We are too
resource constrined to deply kludges - crunching about 1.5 million
messages in a good day.  I am sorry to say that but *maybe* our solution
will not be open source because we *may* use our in-house middleware for
communication, which is not open source.

> I thought about it a couple of times, but never went ahead with it... I'm also a slow Perl 
> programmer and 2 old 2 C seriously... :-(

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