Re: [exim] Load Based Grey Listing

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Odhiambo G. Washington
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Load Based Grey Listing


Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:

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

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>>| 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.

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>>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.
>>
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>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? ;)
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Not rejecting them - deferrig them.