From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 28 09:24:46 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 3CC9C16A401 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:24:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EAB13C448 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDESK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l3S9Odle049400; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Bart Silverstrim" Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:25:22 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:24:41 -0700 (PDT) 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: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:24:46 -0000 > -----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