Re: [exim] problem with greylisting and retries

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Author: Michael Dominok
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Subject: Re: [exim] problem with greylisting and retries
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 11:28, Andy Rabagliati wrote:
> I use greylisting, to great effect.

<snip>
> I do not generate extra mails back to the sender - I just rely on the
> sending MTA to retry 35 minutes or more later.

You're "just" forcing the Sender to keep legitimate eMail, that should have been delivered immediately, longer (or rather at all) in Queue.
I would call that "generating extra Mail" or at least hostile behaviour,
since you're accomplishing your "great effect" on others expense.

And that's not even touching the Problem that Daniel posted about.

Cheers

Michael

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