[Mimedefang] action_tempfail question -- greylist at filter_begin
Rick Mallett
rmallett at ccs.carleton.ca
Thu Feb 5 12:39:49 EST 2004
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.
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