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Re: A few new user's thoughts

2004-12-10 by egcrosser

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, manu@n... wrote:

> > On incoming mail to non-existent user (or other indication of
"bad"
> > behavior, e.g. DCC positive), increase badness index by
> > constant_coefficient/(time_now-last_update+1), and set
last_update to
> > current time.  Or maybe just increase it by a constant.
> 
> milter-greylist does not know what addresses are valid, or about
DCC.
> How do you plan to address that problem?

I have no real-life experience with milter interface, but maybe
xxfi_abort() vs. xxfi_eom() could be used to tell nondeliverable
messages from deliverable?

About DCC, I only mentioned it as a theoretic possability, if somebody
would try to combine greylisting with other antispam technologies (the
way to go, IMHO).

Eugene

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