Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Timothy Alberts <talberts@...>
wrote:
>
> 
> The only problem I seem to have now is dealing with the long delay when
> receiving email.  Most of my clients are used to near instant email
> delivery.  When I first turned it on, it was greylisting for 30 minutes
> and depending on what the sending server retry was, emails were taking
> in excess of an hour.
> 
> So until I actually run into problems with the program, can I ask for
> some opinions on the greylisting time delay and what people have found
> to be a good balance of delivery time versus effective spam blocking?  I
> just last night reset it to 10m greylisting and that seems to be just as
> effective at first glance.  My system services 1 domain with 1 mail
> server and roughly 50 clients.
>

We use 1 minute and check frequently for long delays and add domains
or IPs to greylist.conf, so that legimitate mail servers that don't
deal well with greylisting don't get greylisted.