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Re: [milter-greylist] Delay calculation

2005-03-12 by manu@netbsd.org

Alan Clifford <lists@...> wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation.  I wouldn't like to comment on the message-id
> proposal as I haven't had much experience using greylisting yet.  Or maybe
> I will.  The example came from gmail which uses lots of ip addresses.  If
> one put in the message-id, gmail's cycle through many ip numbers would
> have to be done for each email.  Would that be a good thing?

The right way of dealing with mail farms is to whitelist them. A message
coming from Google pool will always hit your mailbox, regardless if it
is spam or not. greylisting buys you nothing in this situation and it
causes delays.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
Un bouquin en français sur BSD:
http://www.eyrolles.com/Informatique/Livre/9782212114638/livre-bsd.php
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