On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:11:21AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Everton da Silva Marques wrote:
>
> > May we hope Exim someday is going to support something like this:
> >
> > # If set to "yes", Exim teergrubes the offending SMTP client
> > # Defaults to "no"
> > teergrube_prohibited_relay = yes
>
> I don't actually know exactly how the existing teergrubing software
> works. I know it "slows down" the connection, but I don't know the
> details.
>
> In Exim 4.11 (out soon) you will be able to specify a delay in the ACL.
> This, I guess, will provide a form of teergrubing. (We already have the
> smtp_ratelimit_xxx options, which are related.)
>
> Is there anything more to it than "delay before responding"? Hmm. I
> suppose you could send a multi-line response, delaying before each
> line...
