Re: [hosers-talk] greylisting

["Jon Stewart" <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

> I've been thinking about setting up greylisting on charybdis. What that
> means is that a database of remote email servers would be kept, and only
> mail from known servers would be delivered immediately; all other mail
> servers would be asked to try again later, and then any mail servers which
> actually try again are added to the database. This is pretty effective
> against spam because usually legitimate mail servers make a second attempt
> to deliver (a few minutes to an hour later, usually), while spammers tend
> not to try again with the same message.
> 
> So, would it bother anyone if I set up greylisting on charybdis? (This is
> likely to affect your real mail only if you routinely receive mail from
> people who have never contacted you before which needs to be acted upon
> within a few minutes of it being sent.)
> 
> -- 
> J.
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