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Boring Title Slide

An inbound SMTP proxy...

...placed between the Internet and your existing SMTP server

...that throttles the connection with the remote MTA if and as it receives spam.

Why?

Reject at SMTP Time

Tempfail

Really Tarpit

Launch External Processes

What IS Spam?

Initial Approach

Lesson 1: Don't Tarpit Yourself

Lesson 2: Expect Classifiers To Do Less

Lesson 3: Allow Classifiers To Do More

Lessons Applied

TarProxy-Specific Headers

Taking Action

Trigger Example

Caveats

Challenges

Current Status

Author: Marty Lamb

E-mail: mlamb at martiansoftware dot com

Homepage: http://www.martiansoftware.com/tarproxy