[Mimedefang] action_tempfail question -- greylist at filter_begin

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Xiaoyan Ma wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it's a good idea to only consider the first three octets (that's what
CanIt does).  I doubt it will help spammers all that much.

Regards,

David.