How about an ebuild for a tarpit?

Griffon26 · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 5:13 pm Post subject: How about an ebuild for a tarpit?

I've been reading about an SMTP tarpit here:
http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrube.en.html
and I was wondering if anyone thinks it would be a good idea to make an ebuild that could set this up.

I don't know if the procedure would be different for different mail servers. If it would, maybe there would be separate tarpit-<mailservername> ebuilds, otherwise it would just be a tarpit ebuild that depends on "virtual/mta" or something like that.

The reason that I ask is that I was intrigued by the way tarpits like this work, but I haven't installed it yet because I'm afraid it will ruin my (now working) mail setup

I suppose lots of people are willing to run something like this to fight spam, but just like me aren't confident enough to set it up themselves.

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.

Griffon26

guitard00d · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 10:13 pm Post subject:

I agree 100%...I run Qmail and since it was installed using emerge, I don't have any idea how to apply the qmail-tarpit or qmail-spamthrottle patches. Seems like as common as the need for this kind of stuff is on high volume mail servers, Gentoo would have automatically included things like this.
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Lews_Therin · l33t Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 657 Location: Banned

Perhaps a "tarpit" use flag?

guitard00d · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 1:12 am Post subject:

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I'm with you guitard00d, tarpit patch would be great. My ebuild skills are very minimal I guess, when I try to modify it something breaks for me. I will keep trying.