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Re: [milter-greylist] lazyaw

2005-04-05 by Matthias Scheler

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:44:26PM +0200, Jacob Garder wrote:
> 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?

A Zombie spam PC which sends an e-mail to "joe@..." and a
few minutes later a e-mail to "tom@..." and gets
whitelisted that way.

"mail.netbsd.org" used an IP address based greylisting approach
initially and it was not very effective.

	Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/

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