Author: Sean Witham Date: To: Paul Wilson CC: exim-users New-Topics: [Exim] Selectively applying rbl Subject: Re: [Exim] Anti-Spam idea: throttling
Paul Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Karl Vogel wrote:
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> Highly doubt it, that's normally tcp/ip stack level stuff in the kernel.
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Not strictly true, an application can usualy tune the size of a socket
buffer and simply hold back on the rate it reads bytes from it. Once the
buffer is full the tcp layer's MSS value will reach 0 and stop futher
bytes being sent.