Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:57:52 -0400 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.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: <FF457225-AFD3-4868-99C6-6A84408E2487@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCEEADCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCEEADCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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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.
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