Re: [exim] greylisting

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Author: David Woodhouse
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To: cjackson
CC: exim-users, Steffen Heil
Subject: Re: [exim] greylisting
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 16:08 -0500, Craig Jackson wrote:
> But my impression is that one of the prime reasons for greylisting is to
> avoid the high cost of virus and spamscanning. According to my logs,
> greylisting stops a huge percentage of spam before the recipient check.
> If mail is spam-scanned then greylisted, is it spam-scanned again when
> it is resent?


In my case, yes -- it's not used as a tactic for load reduction. If
that's what you want then I suppose it does make some sense to do it
before DATA, yes.

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