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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
At 7:43 PM -0400 2002/08/22, Barry Shein wrote: That's basically what postfix does. Based on the types of abuse (e.g., too many bounces in a given period of time), it goes into a bounded exponential backoff for the amount of time that it will sleep between operations. I am proud to say that I was a champion of this kind of behaviour, and I helped convince Wietse that this was a good thing to do.If you want slower e-mail delivery why not just put sleeps into the receiving MTA? However, what we're talking about here is a way to know, a priori, whether or not you should start immediately sleeping long periods of time between transactions, based on a "cookie" that is transmitted early in the SMTP dialog. If you've got the cookie, then there is no extra sleeping added. If you don't, then there are added sleep loops for the very first message and all following messages (maybe you would even refuse to accept more than one message per connection, slowing them down even more). The only way to get the cookie is to be a good netizen and sign up with a well-maintained central white list operator, who would then issue you the cookie in question. What becomes interesting in this kind of case is handling the cookie distribution infrastructure, as well as the cookie revocation infrastructure. However, all of this is way off-topic for NANOG, according to the proposed FAQ. -- Brad Knowles, <[email protected]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
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