From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 16:20:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DA016A429 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 16:20:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B835843E2F for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:49:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1F5PfU-000KcI-Mc; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:49:44 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 08:49:43 -0700 To: Ted Mittelstaedt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lisa Casey Subject: Re: Getting a new server 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, 04 Feb 2006 16:20:48 -0000 On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > The beauty of the greylist milter over the way your doing it, is that > with > your method, the spammer is able to completely send the message to > you. > Yes I realize the message gets killed in between your outside > server and > your user's mailbox. But, the spammer doesen't know that and they > think > they have successfully sent a message. Thus it encourages them to > keep sending. Uhh, no. They may be sending the message but they get the reject in the DATA phase before the smtp connection is done. The spammer does NOT think he has successfully sent the message unless it is one that does not care anyway to finish the smtp connection. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net