Craig Jackson wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:20:59PM -0500, Craig Jackson wrote:
>>
>>> It's the few mail servers that I need to receive mail from that
>>> don't resend that I'm concerned about. For example, Southwest
>>> Airlines does not always resend.
>>
>>
>>
>> You are saying that Southwest Airlines have configured their mail
>> server so
>> that their outgoing mails are dropped on the floor in response to any
>> temporary error??
>>
>
> My experience has been that some of their confirmations are dropped.
> We've received a few retries recently. And I see they are listed in
> the whitelist database the a poster sent yesterday:
> http://greylisting.org/whitelisting.shtml
> C
>
>
This is actually quite a big issue for greylisting in general. A mail
provider with 1000's of members is GOING to get email lost. Which means
a lot of irate customers.
I was going to use greylisting on my own box but this is making me think
twice.
