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Thomas_Schaefer's avatar
Thomas_Schaefer
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Apr 23, 2009

Make a Dummy SMTP server in an iRule?

I have a need to create a dummy SMTP server in an iRule. My thought was to use the SMTP proxy iRule and instead of forward the messages on to the SMTP server to discard them. I am trying to do thi...
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Nat_Thirasuttakorn's avatar
Nat_Thirasuttakorn
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Apr 24, 2009
TCP::collect in CLIENT_DATA is to make sure we keep collecting data so that CLIENT_DATA is called again and never send the data (never TCP::release)

 

 

regarding hang problem... maybe you can try something like this...

 

 

QUIT* {

 

TCP::payload replace 0 [TCP::payload length] ""

 

TCP::respond "221 Bye\r\n"

 

TCP::close

 

return

 

}

 

 

(sorry, not tested)