[Mimedefang] Re: MTA

[Les Mikesell]

G.W. Haywood wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:56:50AM -0400, Daniel Aquino wrote:
>>>> I wonder what type of tests are  you guys performing at the MTA level
>>>> that will subvert any extra processing that would occur with
>>>> mimedefang ?
>> 1. greet_pause
> 
> I use a loooong pause, sometimes I have to remove it for specific hosts
> or domains that can't handle it.

Do you have some reason to think that making this pause long does 
something other than waste the time of benevolent mailing list handlers?

> The net result is the virtual elimination of spam.  I can't give a
> very accurate figure for the fraction which gets through, but it is of
> the order of 0.00001 percent. 

It's easy enough to drop all spam if you don't care what else you lose.

> I do have occasional issues with people
> who use (I'll be careful with my words here) ISPs known for spam
> problems.  There are many ISPs from who all attempts to send mail - in
> fact all connection attempts - are rejected by my servers.  That
> doesn't keep me awake at night, but it does mean that my approach
> isn't for everyone.

Yes, some people care about valid email.

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   Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com