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Re: [milter-greylist] lazyaw

2005-04-05 by manu@netbsd.org

Jacob Garder <jacob@...> wrote:

> Does someone have experience or statistics of running greylist with the lazyaw
> option? Does it decrease the efficiency significantly?
> 
> As far as I can see if a mailserver with a certain IP-address retries
> sending a mail to me with one sender/reciever tuple, the probability that
> it would do the same with another sender/reciever tuple is pretty high.
> 
> In that case what is the point in auto-whitelist according to the (IP-address,
> reciever, sender) tuple and not just the IP-address? What am I missing here?

Think about networks running behind NAT with regular SMTP server and
zombies running spam engines. 

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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