[nycbug-talk] greylisting proxies?

Ray Lai nycbug at cyth.net
Sun Oct 1 14:26:52 EDT 2006


On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:00:34PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:48:39PM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> >On Sun 2006.10.01 at 00:04 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> I'm currently stuck with my decision to run qmail in many places. :)
> >> 
> >> I really want to give greylisting a try since I'm seeing an average of 
> >> 80-85% of all mail is spam and the less cpu/disk/network I can spend 
> >> processing this junk the better.
> 
> and greylisting purges 97% of of them, with low (0?) false positives.

Well, no.  There are some badly configured MTAs that either use
pools (Google) or give up after one try.

-Ray-



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