23 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] Deactivate tarpit...
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Subject:Re: [courier-users] Deactivate tarpitting?Actions...
From:Dirk Kulmsee (kulm@netgroup.de)
Date:Nov 13, 2007 4:28:16 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

I wonder if there is a way to deactivate the teergrube in Courier

without recompiling?

Nope.

Maybe there is even a way to exclude (whitelist) single IPs from

tarpitting?

Stripping a mail server of its defenses against hostile peers, instead of fixing whatever problem causes the peer to shovel crap in the server's direction, is a rather foolish and a naive decision.

Hi Sam, I _definitely_ agree with you. Courier has been serving us well for years now, teergrube included. The reason why I want to know is, that I want to use a spam filter in front of courier on a separate machine. This would be ASSP (assp.sourceforge.net) which works as a proxy. Now if mailserver.somewhere.com wants to send me an email Courier logs like this:

Nov 14 01:01:16 jupiter courierd: newmsg,id=007174C6.473A3AC6.00007A1F: dns; lists-outbound.sourceforge.net (sirius.netgroup.de [::ffff:195.138.34.209]) [...] Nov 14 01:01:20 jupiter courierd: completed,id=007174C6.473A3AC6.00007A1F

If all incoming connections, good or bad, carry the IP of my spam filter then I am afraid of tarpitting my own machine. There are strange delays and I would like to check if tarpitting is the reason.

Regards Dirk Kulmsee