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Re: [milter-greylist] How does blacklist support work? (Feature request)

2005-07-28 by manu@netbsd.org

Benoit Panizzon <panizzon@...> wrote:

> How does this blacklist support work? 

It does not work. :-)

I just drafted a patch and made it public. It's not finished, there are
issues to fix.

> Just by acl blacklist entries, or can it 
> also interact with results of other mitlers and sendmail?

Except if the other milter and milter-greylist can agree on some
protocol, there is no way to use another milter's results.
 
> I see more and more spamtools that are greylist aware.  They retry sending
> that email after a few minutes. So greylisting does not avoid them.

For how long do you greylist? A long enough delay should do the trick...

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