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Is greylisting still a valid technique?

2009-10-07 by philippeake

Very few spammers still used dedicated systems to send out their wares, most now use bot farms.

This means that they will be sending via real MTAs, which will retry.

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.

Most SPAM was blocked by RBLs, that which passed (the 1234 above) then went on to SpamAssassin, which trashed around 1,210 of them as SPAM.

Greylisting contributed ... zero.

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

2009-10-07 by Joe Pruett

> Very few spammers still used dedicated systems to send out their wares, most now use bot farms.
>
> This means that they will be sending via real MTAs, which will retry.
>
> 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.
>
> Most SPAM was blocked by RBLs, that which passed (the 1234 above) then went on to SpamAssassin, which trashed around 1,210 of them as SPAM.
>
> Greylisting contributed ... zero.

you're misinterpreting the data.  the "delayed for" shows for every 
attempt.  try grepping for "autowhitelisted for" to see how many things 
retried successfully.

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

2009-10-07 by Paul Venezia

[root@mx ~]# grep -c "delayed for" /var/log/maillog
23231
[root@mx ~]# grep -c "autowhitelisted" /var/log/maillog
658

... and that's just today. Bot farms generally don't retry, dedicated spam relays do. I've manually blocked a few overseas /24s due to this, but otherwise, I let it run by itself.

-Paul

On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:46 AM, philippeake wrote:

Very few spammers still used dedicated systems to send out their wares, most now use bot farms.

This means that they will be sending via real MTAs, which will retry.

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.

Most SPAM was blocked by RBLs, that which passed (the 1234 above) then went on to SpamAssassin, which trashed around 1,210 of them as SPAM.

Greylisting contributed ... zero.


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

2009-10-07 by Fredrik Pettai

On Oct 7, 2009, at 3:46 PM, philippeake wrote:
> Very few spammers still used dedicated systems to send out their  
> wares, most now use bot farms.
>
> This means that they will be sending via real MTAs, which will retry.
>
> 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.
>
> Most SPAM was blocked by RBLs, that which passed (the 1234 above)  
> then went on to SpamAssassin, which trashed around 1,210 of them as  
> SPAM.
>
> Greylisting contributed ... zero.
>

Did you ever invest time to see how those spam mails actually where  
sent to your MX?
If they are sent thru a "valid" mail relay, greylisting won't help  
you. That's not exactly any new news...

We use greylisting, and it's still very useful. But on the other hand,  
we don't like the idea of using RBL to reject mails "hard" (5.x.x) as  
you are doing.

/P

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
Network Administrator
jason@...
Electronet Broadband Communications
3411 Capital Medical Blvd.
Tallahassee, FL 32308
(V) 850.222.0229 (F) 850.222.8771

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

2009-10-07 by Paul Venezia

Since my previous message to the list this morning has apparently been  
lost somewhere, yes:

root@mx ~]# grep -c "delayed for" /var/log/maillog
23231
[root@mx ~]# grep -c "autowhitelisted" /var/log/maillog
658

... and that's just today. Bot farms generally don't retry, dedicated  
spam relays do. I've manually blocked a few overseas /24s due to this,  
but otherwise, I let it run by itself.

Make sure you're looking for the right data.

-Paul
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On Oct 7, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Jason Bertoch wrote:

> > -----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
> Network Administrator
> jason@...
> Electronet Broadband Communications
> 3411 Capital Medical Blvd.
> Tallahassee, FL 32308
> (V) 850.222.0229 (F) 850.222.8771
>
>
>

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 Paul Venezia
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:19 AM
> To: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [milter-greylist] Is greylisting still a valid technique?
> 
> 
> 
> Since my previous message to the list this morning has apparently been
> lost somewhere, yes:
> 
> root@mx ~]# grep -c "delayed for" /var/log/maillog
> 23231
> [root@mx ~]# grep -c "autowhitelisted" /var/log/maillog
> 658
> 
> Make sure you're looking for the right data.
> 

How is "delayed for" greater than "autowhitelisted"?  "delayed for"
indicates a previously unseen host that was delayed but then retried.
"autowhitelisted" should match on all hosts that have been seen before.  I
wonder if this is related to the greylist delay, in my case 7m.  I can
imagine a relatively high delay setting might cause more hits on a "delayed
for" count where servers often retry before the countdown has expired.


Jason A. Bertoch
Network Administrator
jason@...
Electronet Broadband Communications
3411 Capital Medical Blvd.
Tallahassee, FL 32308
(V) 850.222.0229 (F) 850.222.8771

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

2009-10-07 by Radovan Mzik

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote:

> \ufffd
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:milter-
> > greylist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Venezia
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:19 AM
> > To: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [milter-greylist] Is greylisting still a valid technique?
> >
> >
> >
> > Since my previous message to the list this morning has apparently been
> > lost somewhere, yes:
> >
> > root@mx ~]# grep -c "delayed for" /var/log/maillog
> > 23231
> > [root@mx ~]# grep -c "autowhitelisted" /var/log/maillog
> > 658
> >
> > Make sure you're looking for the right data.
> >
> 
> How is "delayed for" greater than "autowhitelisted"? "delayed for"
> indicates a previously unseen host that was delayed but then retried.

it's not true, it's logged even for the first time. So there is no 
indication that the host retried if you are not checking the interval 
value in the logfile.

> "autowhitelisted" should match on all hosts that have been seen before.

yes, and this is the way greylisting works. Autowhitelisted entry in the 
logfile indicates that the sender retried after greylisting period or was 
autowhitelisted before.

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

2009-10-07 by Paul Venezia

If you're using milter-greylist, 'delayed for' will show all the  
tuples that didn't match extant autowhitelist entries or manual  
whitelist entries. Thus, the number of incoming messages that were  
greylisted. Subsequently looking for 'autowhitelisted' shows the  
number that then were retried and were automatically whitelisted.

Thus, in my example, 658 out of 23231 were passed through (nearly all  
were non-spam) and the remainder were never retried. From these  
numbers, greylisting is working fantastically.

Keep in mind that these numbers were the first 9h of today on this  
particular relay. Some days the number of non-retried email tops  
300,000.

-Paul
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On Oct 7, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Jason Bertoch wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:milter-
> > greylist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Venezia
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:19 AM
> > To: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [milter-greylist] Is greylisting still a valid  
> technique?
> >
> >
> >
> > Since my previous message to the list this morning has apparently  
> been
> > lost somewhere, yes:
> >
> > root@mx ~]# grep -c "delayed for" /var/log/maillog
> > 23231
> > [root@mx ~]# grep -c "autowhitelisted" /var/log/maillog
> > 658
> >
> > Make sure you're looking for the right data.
> >
>
> How is "delayed for" greater than "autowhitelisted"? "delayed for"
> indicates a previously unseen host that was delayed but then retried.
> "autowhitelisted" should match on all hosts that have been seen  
> before. I
> wonder if this is related to the greylist delay, in my case 7m. I can
> imagine a relatively high delay setting might cause more hits on a  
> "delayed
> for" count where servers often retry before the countdown has expired.
>
> Jason A. Bertoch
> Network Administrator
> jason@...
> Electronet Broadband Communications
> 3411 Capital Medical Blvd.
> Tallahassee, FL 32308
> (V) 850.222.0229 (F) 850.222.8771
>
>
>

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 Radovan Mzik
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:39 AM
> To: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [milter-greylist] Is greylisting still a valid technique?
> 
> > >
> > > root@mx ~]# grep -c "delayed for" /var/log/maillog
> > > 23231
> > > [root@mx ~]# grep -c "autowhitelisted" /var/log/maillog
> > > 658
> > >
> > > Make sure you're looking for the right data.
> > >
> >
> > How is "delayed for" greater than "autowhitelisted"? "delayed for"
> > indicates a previously unseen host that was delayed but then retried.
> 
> it's not true, it's logged even for the first time. So there is no
> indication that the host retried if you are not checking the interval
> value in the logfile.
> 

True, it is logged even for the first attempt.

> > "autowhitelisted" should match on all hosts that have been seen
> > before.
> 
> yes, and this is the way greylisting works. Autowhitelisted entry in
> the logfile indicates that the sender retried after greylisting period or
> was autowhitelisted before.
> 

An autowhitelisted entry occurs each time a host sends mail and for each
recipient, so I think maybe we can't rely on these counts as much as I
previously thought.  I'd still like to figure out why my numbers are
congruent with the OP yet seem to vary wildly to the stats others have
posted.

#grep -c "delayed for" /var/log/maillog
1398

#grep -c "Greylisting in action" /var/log/maillog
1398

#grep -c autowhitelisted /var/log/maillog
8138



Jason A. Bertoch
Network Administrator
jason@...
Electronet Broadband Communications
3411 Capital Medical Blvd.
Tallahassee, FL 32308
(V) 850.222.0229 (F) 850.222.8771

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

2009-10-07 by Oliver Fromme

For your amusement, here are the statistics from a very
small sever of mine.  :-)  It's only hosting a few private
domains.

Numbers are from midnight to now, i.e. roughly 17 hours.

       4   connections rejected by greet_pause
   12707   connections rejected by RBL
      56   messages not greylisted
      45   messages greylisted
      23   new tuples autowhitelisted

So, clearly the majority of spam messages are caught by
the RBL settings, which are rather tight on this machine.
But still, greylisting catches a good amount of the
remaining spam.

It should also be noted that some RBLs are in fact using
greylisting feedback to add entries to their lists.
So it is not suprising that many connections that would
be caught by greylisting are already caught by the RBLs.

By the way, my greet_pause setting is currently 5 seconds.
I'm considering to increase it to 10 seconds and check
if it catches more connections then.

One final important note:  It is not sufficient to grep
for 'autowhitelisted' because that will also match log
entries about expired autowhitelisted entries:

Oct  7 16:12:35 server milter-greylist: addr xx.xx.xx.xx
from <yy@...> rcpt <zz@...>: autowhitelisted entry expired

Grepping for 'autowhitelisted for' seems to work for me.

On another small server that runs a ticket system for a
limited group of people, numbers looks like this:

      1   connections rejected by greet_pause
   2604   connections rejected by RBL
    383   messages not greylisted
    140   messages greylisted
     39   new tuples autowhitelisted

And yet another box that belongs to a small company:

     0   connections rejected by greet_pause
    57   connections rejected by RBL
   276   messages not greylisted
    28   messages greylisted
     1   new tuples autowhitelisted

So I would say that greylisting is definitely not useless,
in general.

Best regards
   Oliver

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

2009-10-07 by Vincent Rivellino

On Wed, October 7, 2009 09:46, philippeake wrote:
> Very few spammers still used dedicated systems to send out their wares,
> most now use bot farms.
>
> This means that they will be sending via real MTAs, which will retry.
>
> 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.
>
> Most SPAM was blocked by RBLs, that which passed (the 1234 above) then
> went on to SpamAssassin, which trashed around 1,210 of them as SPAM.
>
> Greylisting contributed ... zero.


Working good for me ...

[var@cp1 tmp]$ zcat mx1-maillog.1.gz mx2-maillog.1.gz | sed -n
's/^.*milter-greylist: .* from <\([^>]\+\)> to <\([^>]\+\)> delayed
for.*$/\1:\2/p' | sort -u | wc -l
741
[var@cp1 tmp]$ zcat mx2-maillog.1.gz mx2-maillog.1.gz | sed -n
's/^.*milter-greylist: .* from <\([^>]\+\)> rcpt <\([^>]\+\)>:
autowhitelisted for.*$/\1:\2/p' | sort -u | wc -l
65


Last week I had 741 unique from-addr/to-addr combinations that were
greylisted, but only 65 unique from-addr/to-addr combinations that were
autowhitelisted after the greylisting.


FWIW - I only use one RBL (HostKarma's BL) to actually blacklist.  I used
other RBL's for varying lengths of greylisting.

Re: [~Disarmed~] Re: [milter-greylist] Is greylisting still a valid technique?

2009-10-07 by Eduardo Casarero

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----- "Vincent Rivellino" <vince@...> wrote: 
> 
> 
> 
> 

On Wed, October 7, 2009 09:46, philippeake wrote: 
> > Very few spammers still used dedicated systems to send out their wares, 
> > most now use bot farms. 
> > 
> > This means that they will be sending via real MTAs, which will retry. 
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > Most SPAM was blocked by RBLs, that which passed (the 1234 above) then 
> > went on to SpamAssassin, which trashed around 1,210 of them as SPAM. 
> > 
> > Greylisting contributed ... zero. 
> 
> Working good for me ... 
> 
> [var@cp1 tmp]$ zcat mx1-maillog.1.gz mx2-maillog.1.gz | sed -n 
> 's/^.*milter-greylist: .* from <\([^>]\+\)> to <\([^>]\+\)> delayed 
> for.*$/\1:\2/p' | sort -u | wc -l 
> 741 
> [var@cp1 tmp]$ zcat mx2-maillog.1.gz mx2-maillog.1.gz | sed -n 
> 's/^.*milter-greylist: .* from <\([^>]\+\)> rcpt <\([^>]\+\)>: 
> autowhitelisted for.*$/\1:\2/p' | sort -u | wc -l 
> 65 
> 
> Last week I had 741 unique from-addr/to-addr combinations that were 
> greylisted, but only 65 unique from-addr/to-addr combinations that were 
> autowhitelisted after the greylisting. 
> 
> FWIW - I only use one RBL (HostKarma's BL) to actually blacklist. I used 
> other RBL's for varying lengths of greylisting. 
> 
> 


I my stats doesnt separate greylisting rejects from unkwnown user but here they are: 

Since 2009-09-01 up to now: 

Rejections: 109.206.474 

SPAM : 13.331.196 

HAM: 7.289.974 

I dont reject with rbl at MTA level, and greylisting takes more than 60% of rejections. 

So, yes, greylisting still do the job (at least in latin america). 




>

Re: Is greylisting still a valid technique?

2009-10-07 by philippeake

Ok - I used the wrong stats here.

What we really need to look for are the initial delay of an incoming message, which we get from:

# grep "Greylisting in action" mail | wc -l
1321

Then there are two possible subsequent events based upon that first rejection.

1) The email is re-sent, and it passes through with an added header indicating the delay.

2) Subsequent emails with the 3-tuple that matches will just sail through, these are the "autowhitelist" entries. Note that the ORIGINAL email is not an autowhitelist.

We can get a count of the initial email retry, plus the autowhitelist emails thus:

# egrep "X-Greylist: Delayed for|autowhitelisted" mail | wc -l
95

So - to answer my own question -- yes this is still a VERY valid technique.


------

I didn't look closely enough at the log data, the phrase "delayed for" occurs on every initial rejection, so its not surprising that those two counts were identical.

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

2009-10-07 by Bob Friesenhahn

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jonas Israelsson wrote:

> +1
>
> grep "Greylisting in action" mail | wc -l
>  746855
> grep "autowhitelisted for" mail | wc -l
>    7361

There is extreme benefit here as well:

% grep "Greylisting in action" syslog* |wc -l
315079
% grep "autowhitelisted for" syslog* |wc -l
5300

My email address has been plastered on thousands of web pages and 
documents on the Internet since 1993.  Due to this, sometimes 1000 
spams per day were getting through my baysian mail filter (which I 
still also use).  Now that I am using greylisting, sanity has 
been restored, although it causes inconvenience at times.

There are ways that a system administrator could accidentally botch 
greylisting.  For example, mail delivery could be allowed on some 
other friendly host (via a MX record) when then repeatedly tries to 
deliver the message until it succeeds.  All MX mail hosts need to 
engage in the greylisting or it won't work.

Bob
--
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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

2009-10-07 by Seth Mos

I'd like to chime in on this discussion as well.

I don't use any blacklists at work, greylisting only.

I do use a urlcheck at work which checks the MX host DNS entries and
sender domain/ip address with a subnet match. That takes care of most
email farms as well.

It means that for any domain where the mail is handled correctly it
accepts the email without any delay. Which is the urlwhite part of the
email.

It shows that a significant volume of email is coming from correctly
configured domains and mail servers.

For this script you can find the link in the archives.

https://webmail.coltex.nl/spam/

Regards,

Seth
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> Ok - I used the wrong stats here.
>
> What we really need to look for are the initial delay of an incoming
> message, which we get from:
>
> # grep "Greylisting in action" mail | wc -l
> 1321
>
> Then there are two possible subsequent events based upon that first
> rejection.
>
> 1) The email is re-sent, and it passes through with an added header
> indicating the delay.
>
> 2) Subsequent emails with the 3-tuple that matches will just sail through,
> these are the "autowhitelist" entries. Note that the ORIGINAL email is not
> an autowhitelist.
>
> We can get a count of the initial email retry, plus the autowhitelist
> emails thus:
>
> # egrep "X-Greylist: Delayed for|autowhitelisted" mail | wc -l
> 95
>
> So - to answer my own question -- yes this is still a VERY valid
> technique.
>
>
> ------
>
> I didn't look closely enough at the log data, the phrase "delayed for"
> occurs on every initial rejection, so its not surprising that those two
> counts were identical.
>
>

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

2009-10-07 by Rick Knight

Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  
>
>
> For your amusement, here are the statistics from a very
> small sever of mine. :-) It's only hosting a few private
> domains.
>
> Numbers are from midnight to now, i.e. roughly 17 hours.
>
> 4 connections rejected by greet_pause
> 12707 connections rejected by RBL
> 56 messages not greylisted
> 45 messages greylisted
> 23 new tuples autowhitelisted
>
> So, clearly the majority of spam messages are caught by
> the RBL settings, which are rather tight on this machine.
> But still, greylisting catches a good amount of the
> remaining spam.
>
> It should also be noted that some RBLs are in fact using
> greylisting feedback to add entries to their lists.
> So it is not suprising that many connections that would
> be caught by greylisting are already caught by the RBLs.
>
> By the way, my greet_pause setting is currently 5 seconds.
> I'm considering to increase it to 10 seconds and check
> if it catches more connections then.
>
> One final important note: It is not sufficient to grep
> for 'autowhitelisted' because that will also match log
> entries about expired autowhitelisted entries:
>
> Oct 7 16:12:35 server milter-greylist: addr xx.xx.xx.xx
> from <yy@... <mailto:yy%40yy.yy>> rcpt <zz@... 
> <mailto:zz%40zz.zz>>: autowhitelisted entry expired
>
> Grepping for 'autowhitelisted for' seems to work for me.
>
> On another small server that runs a ticket system for a
> limited group of people, numbers looks like this:
>
> 1 connections rejected by greet_pause
> 2604 connections rejected by RBL
> 383 messages not greylisted
> 140 messages greylisted
> 39 new tuples autowhitelisted
>
> And yet another box that belongs to a small company:
>
> 0 connections rejected by greet_pause
> 57 connections rejected by RBL
> 276 messages not greylisted
> 28 messages greylisted
> 1 new tuples autowhitelisted
>
> So I would say that greylisting is definitely not useless,
> in general.
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
>
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>
> 
Oliver,

How are you collecting the statistic on greet_pause?

Thanks,
Rick

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

2009-10-07 by Oliver Fromme

Rick Knight wrote:
 > How are you collecting the statistic on greet_pause?

grep -c pre-greet /var/log/maillog

Best regards
   Oliver

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

2009-10-08 by manu@netbsd.org

Vincent Rivellino <vince@...> wrote:

> FWIW - I only use one RBL (HostKarma's BL) to actually blacklist.  I used
> other RBL's for varying lengths of greylisting.

I do that too. Greylisting with reputation based delays is still a very
effective spam filtering technique.

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