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Some links on SMTP tar-pit to lessen SPAM

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/03

Some links for my archive; note that pure tar-pits by now are also hampering large email sender services like SendGrid, Mailgun and Amazon SES.

So the below links are for educational and historic purposes only.

I assembled these links because out of a sudden, Ring 2FA verification emails could not be delivered any more.

Ring 2FA came mandatory towards the end of February 2020.

Some links on that:

Sendmail timeouts:

–jeroen

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Posted in *nix, Communications Development, Development, HIS Host Integration Services, Internet protocol suite, Power User, SMTP | Leave a Comment »

Delphi “Variant Records”, a few notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/14

Variant Records are a feature that has been in the Pascal language since Standard Pascal.

A cool page for historic perspective is R3R: Pascal Features in Popular Compilers, hopefully someone will update it to more modern versions of the mentioned compilers.

There is not much official documentation on the Delphi side on this, so below some parts of a case I used for a project that started in 1997 and is still in use to day. Read the rest of this entry »

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