Hello >It simply works this way: If a given host produces too >many (x) errors in a given timespan (t), that host will >not be allowed to connect to the SMTP Server at all for >a given timespan (usually 20 minutes or so).
Thinking a little bit more about it, it would also make sense to keep track of successfully delivered mails, so that the tarpitting code does not put large mailservers or mailing lists on a blacklist which just happen to send 1000 Mails within 2 minutes and a 2% failure rate to a given server. What do you think ? Kai Londenberg
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