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RE: [milter-greylist] Is greylisting still a valid technique?

2009-10-07 by Jason Bertoch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:milter-
> greylist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Fredrik Pettai
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:05 AM
> To: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [milter-greylist] Is greylisting still a valid technique?
> 
> 
> >
> > Looking at my logs over the last two days I see this:
> >
> > # grep "Greylisting in action" mail | wc -l
> > 1234
> > # grep "delayed for" mail | wc -l
> > 1234
> >
> > So every email delayed by greylisting was eventually re-sent and
> > accepted.
> >
> 
> We use greylisting, and it's still very useful.


Do you have any stats to support this?  Mine seem to agree with the OP.


Jason A. Bertoch
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