Re: [exim] Issues with greylisting

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Author: Mike Cardwell
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Issues with greylisting
On 23/01/2010 08:26, Chih-Cherng Chin wrote:

>> For me greylisting all mail eliminates most of my spam and I hardly ever
>> receive any calls regarding it.
> Greylisting is indeed very effective at filtering out bot-sent spam,
> which account for more than 80% of global spam now. You can also couple
> it with auto whitelist to reduce transimission delay caused by greylisting.
> Whenever your users send e-mail, the recepients are very likely to reply.
> So why not let their reply bypass greylisting (with exim ACL) automatically?
>
> Please refer to the following posts for some implementation idea of auto
> whitelist for exim:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/exim/users/68306#68306
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/exim/users/68924#68924
>
> Chih-Cherng Chin
>
> Botnet Detection with Greylisting:
> http://botnet-tracker.blogspot.com/2009/11/greylisting-botnet-detection-honeypot.html


I wrote a short article last year on how I implemented that sort of
whitelisting using MySQL as the data store:

https://secure.grepular.com/Whitelist_Recipients_in_Exim

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