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Re: [milter-greylist] BotNet plugin

2007-01-05 by Alan M. Evans

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 05:19, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> If the probability of a sending host having a real SMTP
> server is fairly high, then it doesn't make sense at all
> to waste a greylist entry for it and cause a delay,
> because it will resend anyway. It doesn't matter at all
> whether it is spam or not.

Greylisting allows the spamming host time to be listed in the RBLs.

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