Re: [exim] Defer as a spam filter

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Author: Mark Nipper
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To: Tom Kistner
CC: Exim-Users \(E-mail\), Carl Inglis
Subject: Re: [exim] Defer as a spam filter
On 04 Mar 2005, Tom Kistner wrote:
> If you run a small shop, get the parameters right and are prepared for
> one or the other complaint, you can do it. But I'd never implement it
> for a whole University.


    And for what it's worth, at my "day" job, we do in fact
greylist for the entire University.
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http://www.tamu.edu/network-services/smtp-relay/greylisting.html


I'd say that is a total of at least fifty thousand e-mail
addresses if not substantially more for service addresses and
departmental stuff. We've had a few problems here and there, but
on the whole it's been rather painless.

    Of course, this came after our blocking people for DSN
via rfc-ignorant, and I believe that has actually caused more
grief by number of incidents reported thus far than greylisting.


    To each his own of course.  :)


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