[Mimedefang] Spam with more than one recipient - reject or not?

[Steffen Kaiser]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com wrote:

> David F. Skoll wrote:
>> Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com wrote:
>>
>>> Tempfail the second of A and B at RCPT time...
>>
>> There are serious practical problems with this approach:
>
> True.  Just brainstorming.
>
> 5. Accept A and B at RCPT time... make a decision at DATA time.
>
> If all recipients agree a message should be rejected, reject it (duh)
> If all recipients agree a message should be accepted, accept it (duh)
> If there's any disagreement, tempfail it ONCE and remember it.
> If there's a retry later, ACCEPT IT.  The initial disagreement, plus the fact that there was a real retry, should go a long way toward proving the hammyness of the email.
>
> Drawback... if spammers start retrying, this could be a free ride for a lot of spam.

This is a conditional Greylisting, no?

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser