Milter-greylist

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:11:02AM -0400, DAve (dave.list@...) wrote:
> We have deployed milter-greylist on all our gateway servers with great 
> success. We noticed an immediate and (so far) permanent reduction in 
> spam getting through.
> 
> I have a few (4 out of 6k) clients who are complaining about the new lag 
> in mail delivery. We can handle the clients but our sales force is now 
> convinced that we will all starve, become destitute, and have sell our 
> bodies to medical research to feed our families.
> 

I HAD the same problem, I just hung in there and didnt barge ... and
every now and then I give them a report of the refused messages,
that calms them down.

Further I checked the average delay, with my setup its about 18 mins.

Further I explain:

  If you constantly look at your mailbox to check whether a new
  mail is coming in you are NOT productive!


> However, I have found that if I tell sales that our competitors are 
> throwing monkey poo, they will demand a truckload of bigger monkey poo. 
> So If I can say "Our competitors are using greylisting", sales will go away.
> 
> Is there a list of large mail providers who are using Greylisting to 
> combat spam? I have the link from greylist.org, and I have found some 
> others by searching. Just curious if anyone had a list of known greylist 
> users.

I dont think you will get that.
People dont advertise to spamers "I do this and that" ;-)



jobst




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