[Mimedefang] action_tempfail question -- greylist at filter_begin

[Xiaoyan Ma]

At 12:39 PM 2/5/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Xiaoyan Ma wrote:
>
> >
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> >
> > We had a message from earthlink.net that was greylised 4 times and finally
> > got through 5 hours later.  The reason was the re-queued message was picked
> > up by different boxes.  Maybe I should only take the first 3 octes of the
> > IP-addresse for greylist and hope this will not open doors for spammers.
> >
>
>Try reducing the greylist period to 5 minutes. In my experience this is
>just as effective as one hour and you can afford to tempfail several times
>before the delivery delay becomes excessive.
>_________________________________________

We had no  retry time limit yet. I think it was earthlink's configured to 
process queue every 60 mins, yahoo is about 10 mins.

Xiaoyan

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