Milter-greylist

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:22:34AM -0400, DAve (dave.list@...) wrote:
> Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:57:38AM -0400, DAve wrote:
> >> Sales isn't complaining about the delay to them, they are concerned that 
> >> all our clients will flee to someone else.
> > 
> > Enable it only for clients that asked for it, et voila.
> > You could even have the clients toggling it on or off through a web 
> > page. 
> 
> Yep, we are going to try the lazylaw first if complaints continue. I am 
> hoping that greylisting is just the 'bright and shiney' distraction of 
> the hour.
> 
> Generally anytime I make a change to our spam controls, that one change 
> gets the blame for everything that goes wrong, missing email, global 
> warming, loss of life and limb, etc. Once the change has been in effect 
> for awhile people forget about it.

True, I have greylisting running for more than a year ...


I made a change about 2 weeks ago to be able to whitelist a
"special email address" not to be checked by the black hole lists.

I turned on

  FEATURE(delay_checks,friend)dnl

in sendmail. I ended up rejecting mail from my secondary mailserver ...
what a surprise that was! SOME mailservers which got the (greylist) tempfail
went straight to my secondary (which is correct) server, this one
now for reasons I cannot explain (I had that thing for years) refused
to relay to our domain ... 

Bugger me if I knew why ... and lots of peoples email got rejected 
on TOP of one of our biggests ISP (optus) getting onto SORBS so 
(becasue users not explaining properly) I thought it was all to
do with sorbs ...

I had a "few" grumpy users, so I put it back as it was two weeks ago
and I kow that in a week or so everything will be forgotten .....



jobst




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