[Mimedefang] Powerful anti-spam rule that never discards vali d e-mail

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Jan 15 12:55:01 EST 2003


On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Mycrom wrote:

> Interesting... Just a thought when I was lacking about 5 hours of sleep.
> Doesn't make as much since now :) David is right. Reject the first
> delivery attempt will do a world of good but in my environment our
> customers expect speedy delivery and adding 15 minutes to a few hours
> for a messages queue re-delivery just doesn't work for them.

Yes, but that's only the very first time.  Once a line of communication
is established, messages get through with no delay.  In my case, I expire
the database entries after 180 days, so legitimate senders will only have
one message delayed every 6 months, which I can live with. :-)

--
David.



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