Author: George Ascione Date: To: 'Stanislaw Halik', exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Greylistd
> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006, Dean Brooks wrote:
> > I also think it is a significant mistake to only retain the
> > information for 24 hours. If a server is proven to retry, why would
> > you continue to greylist? At that point, the *only* thing you are
> > accomplishing is delaying email. It is better to leave the
> > information in there for 30 to 60 days, in my opinion, if
> you know the
> > server will retry properly.
>
> Keeping white states for 30+ days has one certain merit - monthly
> mailing list digests won't be throttled into oblivion.
>
> My approach is keeping white entries for 36 days and temporarily
> whitelisting hosts that push 5 messages into the white state.
Are you using greylistd? If so how do you temporarily whitelist hosts that
push 5 messages into the white state?