At 3:18 PM -0400 9/6/06, allan wrote:
In this case, had the spamtrap address not been designated in the
router, it would have, at least, counted toward a tempban. In this
example, the spamtrap did no good, therefore, and had a negative
effect. Your observation that "SIMS does know about
them, they're defined in its routing table" is technically true but,
surely, one would think that sending email to a spamtrap address
justifies a tempban as much a simply sending to a nonexistent
address. More, if you ask me.
I think it is useful for users to recognize this characteristic of
the spamtrap mechanism in SIMS and consider whether it makes sense
to use it.
While the discussion is interesting technically and you *may* figure
out how to change some of the settings via manipulating the resource
or data forks of SIMS, remember that it is after all well beyond
end-of-life as far as Stalker is concerned. So if there's a bug or
inconsistancy, it's probably not going to change.
Along with Christopher Bort's arguments, tempbanning or lack thereof
may have to do with the order in which SIMS evaluates incoming mail.
It's quite possible that SIMS checks the spamtrap list earlier, then
goes on to other evaluations which would result in tempban. If
spamtrapping beats it to the punch and terminates the connection
without ever making further evaluations (which would be the sensible
thing to do - no real need to tie up processor time once you've
decided to reject) then the tempban trigger would not have a chance
to trip.
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