Re: [exim] Greylisting

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Author: David Woodhouse
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To: WJCarpenter
CC: Exim Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [exim] Greylisting
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 10:56 -0800, WJCarpenter wrote:
> Perhaps it is just imprecise language, but it's not every message
> that's affected. It's just the first time the receiving site sees a
> new combination of (recipient, sender IP, sender). For most normal,
> person-to-person sorts of emails, I'm skeptical that this adds up to
> much above normal levels. For mailing list and other types of
> traffics that use VERP (unique addresses per message), it's a burden.


All messages from the mailing list come from the same host. Once you've
worked out the the host in question is actually going to re-send, you no
longer greylist anything from that host any more. Why is it a burden?

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