Re: [exim] Greylistd

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Author: Stanislaw Halik
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Greylistd
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006, George Ascione wrote:

>> And therein lies the rub. I think the solution is to apply
>> greylisting
>> selectively rather that to everyone. Suppose that you only applied
>> greylisting to hosts that:


>> Have bad RDNS
>> In home/dynamic IP ranges
>> Fail and header test
>> Has any slightly weird HELO
>> Mail From:<>
>> Listed in Blacklists like Spamcop that are not good enough to block on


>> What that you will probably block almost as much spam without
>> the delays.
> In its simplest form this is a fantastic idea, thank you. Of course you
> would want to greylist given the fact that you have a reason to do so. I am
> going to immediately try to figure out how to set up the ACL to try this
> out.


Create a separate ACL for testing if the host should be greylisted,
returning accept and deny depending on the predicate.

Then, use your greylisting as usual:

  defer acl       = acl_should_greylist
        condition = your greylisting condition