greylisting with procmail

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Feb 6 08:28:59 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 04:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> FWIW, grey listing has cut incoming spam here by 80%.
> 
> What sort of time delay do you find it adds to getting your mail?

None.  The greylist milter has a cache.  The very first time a system 
contacts mine there will be a 5 minute delay.  After that....0.

> Looking at some systems that uses greylisting for my mail to go through,
> it can take several hours for some messages to get delivered.  It makes
> e-mail utterly useless for some things.  It also makes mail testing a
> right pain in the arse.  You can't set up filters and send yourself a
> test mail, well not unless you fancy spending days doing something that
> should just take minutes.

Nope, not have any problems your seeing.  Must be a Souther Hemisphere thingy.





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