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Greylist timing

2007-02-21 by Tom Hedges

I have received little response from the author on this list, 
although I greatly appreciate the quality of his code. I suppose the 
French and Americans think "Vous est merde", although I suspect we 
really appreciate each other more than that (I hope).

Anyway, I will continue to offer ideas, however poorly they might be 
received...

milter-greylist can offer invaluable data regarding what the "magic" 
number of delay minutes is before purging a greylist entry. By 
recording the time when an entry enters the the greylist, latest time 
it was accessed, versus those entries that were auto-whitelisted; a 
histogram might be constructed to optimize the greylist timeout 
period. I would assume this would offend no one, and would give each 
user an insight into how long it takes to get spam-bot's to give up 
versus the annoying delay joining new BBS's, etc.

Comments (and flames) are welcomed.

Tom

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