Re: [exim] whitelist a domain

Thanks for all the ideas.

Regards,
Basti

On 12.03.2014 14:02, Todd Lyons wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Heiko Schlittermann
> <hs@???> wrote:
>> basti <basti@???> (Mi 12 Mär 2014 13:19:27 CET):
>>> Hello,
>>> i have running exim4 (4.80) on debian.
>>> All is running fine, now I need to get a mail from google with a
>>> response link, the link is only valid for a few minutes an is send from
>>> different servers so it is greylist again and again.
>> You should redesign your greylisting approach. Greylisting keyed on
>> sender ip address is simply wrong. (IMHO)
>
> Agreed, it
>
>> We do greylisting (if at all) keyed on "$sender_address/$local_part@$domain".
>> Exactly because some larger domains use different servers for different
>> delivery attempts.
>
> We do greylisting per
> "$sender_address:$local_part@$domain:$sender_host_address", but only
> if the IP doesn't reverse resolve to anything or if its rDNS looks
> like a dynamic IP. In general, we find that:
> 1) any multiple outbound IP system is properly designed and has rDNS,
> so it doesn't hurt them.
> 2) any sending system which does not have rDNS is not sending
> something we will want.
> 3) any sending system which does have rDNS but is a consumer
> cablemodem or dsl modem is either a spam source or using
> mis/non-configured SMTP Auth.
>
> YMMV, but it works for us.
>
> ...Todd
>