[Mimedefang] Fwd: Re: Accessing the source/destination port #'s at filter_relay

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Mon Oct 11 16:22:09 EDT 2010


  On 10/9/10 4:49 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
>> That assumes that I'm willing to accept the connection.  I might not be.
> Based on the silence from the list, it seems that few other
> people want the feature, so I'm reluctant to add a few dozen lines
> of code for something few people will use.
>
> If you really are concerned about reacting to 70 connections/second,
> I think MIMEDefang is the wrong tool.  You'd need to implement that
> in C.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.

What if I (a) want to TARPIT the connection?  I have to wait until MAIL FROM to do that?  And (b) if I want to not accept the connection, but need to log the 4-tuple (some ISP's insist on this), I'm SOL?





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