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Milter Greylist vs. Postfix's address verification

2004-07-15 by Matthias Scheler

Hello,

it appears that Milter Greylist and Postfix's address verification are
two spam fighting technologies which love to fight each other. What
happens is this:

1.) An e-mail server using Milter Greylist tries to deliver an e-mail
    to an Postfix instance configured to use address verification.

2.) The Postix instance connects back to the e-mail server using
    Milter Greylist and cannot verify the e-mail address because
    greylisting is active.

3.) The Postfix instance refuses to accept the e-mail because the
    address verification has failed.

Is there anything which can be done about this? My guess is that the problem
would not occur if Milter Greylist would refuse the e-mail at the "DATA"
instead of the "RCPT" stage. Is that possible?

	Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/

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