StreamTrap - SMTP filter

Gennai F.

StreamTrap  SMTP  PMDF  OpenVMS  Security  Antispam 

StreamTrap is a software to control SMTP traffics from local users. It acts as an anti-abuse system by controlling the number of SMTP sessions and/or the number of recipient addressed by an authenticated user during a predefined short period StreamTrap tries to recognize two different type of SMTP streams: connection stream and recipient-to stream. StreamTrap identifies two user status: - Normal user status - Stream-source user status. A stream is a flow of events associated to an user that has done the SMTP authentication. A stream is identified by the following 3 parameters: 1 - the username sending messages. 2 - a "stream interval": maximum interval between 2 consecutive events of the same stream type (session or recipient-to). 3 - a stream threshold: the number of events that should happen (with interval <= of "stream interval" between them) to declare the existence of the stream. StreamTrap permits a fine control, by a configuration file, of the action to apply to users that are recognized as Stream source user. It can simply notify the system administrator about users that have been switched to Stream-source user status or it can block the SMTP sessions from such users. The duration of any action can be configured. StreamTrap can be configured accordingly to a site needs and policy.