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Re: [milter-greylist] Re: tarpit auto-whitelisting

2017-07-11 by Jim Klimov

On July 11, 2017 5:37:30 AM GMT+02:00, "manu@... [milter-greylist]" <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>Frank Doepper fd@... [milter-greylist]
><milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>> three years ago I suggested a patch:
>> 
>> > I redo it with -U16 and put it there:
>> > http://taz.de/~fd/stuff/tarpit.patch
>
>Sorry for ignoring it for so long.
>
>It changes the behavior, should there be an option for this? Anyone has
>an opinion on the topic?

I'd say yes, and defaulting to off - for the sake of least-surprise principle when upgrading. Otherwise, the idea is good. 

Might make even more sense in rulesets I published on github that track "spamminess score" in a variable, to suggest that an insistent host might be a good one (so not instant AWL for all that pass it, but more likely to get WLed).

Jim
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