Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Matt Kettler <mkettler@e...>
wrote:
>
> Dennis Willson wrote:
> > This would seem to also allow it to "learn" and allow all the
Spammers that send to you while its in learn mode.
> > 
> 
> True, but unless you're using lazyaw this would only apply to
spammers that are
> using the same touple as previously seen. Such repeated use of the
same source
> IP, MAIL FROM: and RCPT TO: will eventually bypass a greylist anyway.
> 
> That said in my experience very few spammers will retry with the
same touple,
> ever. (I run with a greylist period of 1m, and this works very well)
>

Exactly.  Or, at worse, they will be allowed only for the duration of
the "learning" period".  Can't be worse than w/o greylisting...  I
still have MailScanner/SA behind...

A question that I have with a 1 minute delay, what is the average
delay that your users have to live with?  I guess most SMTP clients
won't knock again after 2 min right?