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SMTP rate-limits [Was: Re: ingress SMTP]
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:36:10 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Simon Waters <simonw () zynet net> wrote:
If the ISP blocks port 25, then the ISP is taking responsibility for
delivering all email sent by a user, and they have to start applying rate limits. Otherwise if they send all email from their users, all they've done is take the spam, and mix it in with the legitimate email, making spam filtering harder.
Okay, I can understand why an ISP might want to apply SMTP rate-limits, but to clarify, I'm assuming you meant that ISPs (if they do block tcp/25 outbound to anything other than their own MTAs) need to watch for excessive SMTP utilization, which might indicate a spammer-client (?). ...as opposed to arbitrary SMTP rate-limits. Yes? - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFIwO90q1pz9mNUZTMRAneaAJwMgmIz99bPUYJ2HgUD6Zs1MOFXgQCgmsPY eUtV2bBKymWfxNwNOgWfp5w= =bdk+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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- SMTP rate-limits [Was: Re: ingress SMTP] Paul Ferguson (Sep 05)
- Re: SMTP rate-limits [Was: Re: ingress SMTP] Michael Thomas (Sep 05)
- Re: SMTP rate-limits [Was: Re: ingress SMTP] Tony Finch (Sep 05)
- RE: SMTP rate-limits [Was: Re: ingress SMTP] Frank Bulk (Sep 06)
- Re: SMTP rate-limits [Was: Re: ingress SMTP] Michael Thomas (Sep 05)