From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 20:58:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E9916A484 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:58:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from trans-warp.net (hyperion.trans-warp.net [216.37.208.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932D213C455 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:58:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unverified [65.193.73.208]) by trans-warp.net (SurgeMail 3.8f2) with ESMTP id 114624069-1860479 for multiple; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:58:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:57:52 -0400 To: Ted Mittelstaedt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Authenticated-User: bsilver@chrononomicon.com Cc: Eric Crist , Grant Peel , Christopher Hilton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:58:02 -0000 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.