Patrick wrote:
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 00:58 +1030, Tim wrote:
[snip]
>> There's actually a way around it in a crunch...I've put a 5 minute
>> window.
> That's really not a solution. While your server may say, come back in
> 5, you don't have any control over how, when, or if, the sender will
> actually retry.
Afaik greylisting uses an RFC compliant method. So if the sending
mailserver does not resend after a while then it is broken and should be
fixed. FWIW I have used greylisting for more than a year now and in all
that time I have only once seen a mailserver not resend.
If the sender (imagine your favourite biggie) uses several sending
MTAs, and each gets a 4xx response, I can imagine at some point the pool
gives up. I've noticed email on several lists I'm on comes from more
than one server.
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Cheers
John
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