Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:25:22 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Bart Silverstrim" <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Cc: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com>, Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEAFCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <FF457225-AFD3-4868-99C6-6A84408E2487@chrononomicon.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:bsilver@chrononomicon.com] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:58 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Christopher Hilton; Grant Peel; Eric Crist; > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam > > > > On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:15 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > There are legitimate technical reasons that someone may want their > > mail > > to not be greylisted. For example, my cell phone's e-mail address is > > in our monitoring scripts to page me in the event of a server failure. > > I would be pretty pissed off if Sprint suddenly started > > greylisting. It > > isn't just dumb-ass users making stupid political decisions to reject > > it, although in your case it probably was. > > If it is a legitimate mail server, it would be promoted to the auto- > whitelist. Not all mail is constantly greylisted by most intelligent > greylist systems. Only the first few messages would be delayed, > until it is established as legitimate. > That won't work in my case since I generally only have a failure that causes a problem which results in paging about once every 3 months or so. By the time the pages got through the greylist it would be at least an hour later after the system had gone down. That isn't acceptable for a notification system. Ted
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