Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:59:18 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam Message-ID: <77D9AF4A-AA68-4AA4-B1CB-9E8781BB77C6@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEAFCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEAFCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On 28/04/2007, at 7:25 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >> -----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. Email is not an instant messaging system, no matter how much you want it to be one.
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