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

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Wed Sep 7 17:38:30 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 13:17, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> > This does bring up a performance-related issue though.  Is there some
> > way for sendmail to learn about repeated delivery failures for bounces
> > and cut down on the retries so when you do bounce real spam with
> > bad sender addresses it doesn't clutter up the outgoing queue for
> > so long?
> 
> Sendmail 8.13.x can have different queue timeouts for DSNs.  See
> http://www.sendmail.org/8.13.0.html

That should help, but I was hoping for something like a greylisting
effect or the reverse where you could learn addresses that have
repeatedly failed and back off the number of times you retry to
that destination.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com





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