On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:47:44PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:38 +0100, Daniel Tiefnig wrote:
> > Yes, but the thought, that we have to queue every single ******* message
> > in the first place just because someone's greylisting, makes me kind of
> > sick.
>
> Indiscriminate greylisting would be bad. If I implement greylisting,
> it'll be triggered by something in the incoming mail -- like a SA score
> above zero, and it'll have a lot of whitelisting for high-volume
> senders. Making them resend every single message isn't acceptable either
> for the the sender or for the recipient.
I think we're in full agreement there (yes, I'm behind on list mail
again, sorry :)
You already know about SA-Exim:
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html#greylisting
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/README.greylisting
Since it does exactly what you describe already, I'm curious about what
you're thinking about doing differently
Marc
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