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Re: [milter-greylist] Time-based greylisting?

2005-05-29 by Matthias Scheler

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 12:04:45AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Of course, mail queued on sender servers while your sendmail is down may
> be resent after some time, ...

The default warn time of "sendmail" is 4 hours. If you shutdown your sendmail
during the night a lot of remote systems will generated warning e-mails
because they cannot deliver e-mail to your system.

And that won't happen with Greylisting and reasonable delay time.

	Kind regards

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

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