Milter-greylist

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Elrond wrote:
> --- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@n...>
> wrote:
> > OTOH, if you don't use the "blacklist" keyword, it cannot reject.
> Well, part of what I meant was "dummy users".
> With blacklisting in the milter, it's easy to screw your mailsystem up.
> without it, theere's exactly one way: Set the greylist interval to
> about 3 to 5 days.

This is the same risk with any filter (procmail, sendmail access, etc).

Preventing users from doing dangerous things also prevents them from doing 
useful things. It's not sufficient argument against implementing such 
features (or, might as well remove 'su' from all unix systems).

-Dan