Re: [exim] Load Based Grey Listing

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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Load Based Grey Listing
* On 12/10/05 09:13 -0700, Fred Viles wrote:
> On 12 Oct 2005 at 8:54, Marc Perkel wrote about
>     "Re: [exim] Load Based Grey Listing":

>
> | Fred Viles wrote:
> | 
> | >On 12 Oct 2005 at 7:36, Marc Perkel wrote about
> | >    "[exim] Load Based Grey Listing":
> | >
> | >|...
> | >|       !verify = reverse_host_lookup
> | >
> | >What percentage of your incoming connections fail 
> | >reverse_host_lookup?
> |...
> | Percentage wise I don't know - but it's over 30 per minute.

>
> Sounds like it might help a little, then. How much depends on how
> quickly you would otherwise have rejected them outright. Let us know
> how well it works for you.


I think Marc (Perkel) is being too liberal.
It beats login why he would _only_ reject them when the load average is
high.

Marc, as Viles says, may I ask what you do with such hosts under
''normal' load? ;)



        cheers
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