[Mimedefang] action_tempfail question -- greylist at filter_begin

Lucas Albers admin at cs.montana.edu
Thu Feb 5 16:12:47 EST 2004


Xiaoyan Ma said:
> 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.
Xiayoan,
Big D (Dave S) mentioned this would be a problem if the sender mail was
part of a mail pool, and would use different MTA's to send the mail.

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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana



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