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

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com
Mon Aug 22 16:51:28 EDT 2005


Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com wrote:
>> 
>> 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?

Yes, it is precisely a conditional greylisting.

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