Christopher X. Candreva said: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Damian Menscher wrote: > >> If user A emails user B and the email doesn't go through in under 2 >> minutes, there will be complaints. Tempfail is just too dangerous. >> Yes, nothing will be lost. But you have to admit it's pretty bad for >> email to be down. A few viruses leaking through is minor compared to >> that. At least, that's how we run our shop. Things may be different > > Have to disagree. > > With so mnay of the major providers haveing multiple-HOUR delays through > their system as standard, a delay of one queue interval for a single > message > won't be noticed. (Comcast comes to mind) >
As always, milage varies. I recently implemented gray listing on a sendmail server farm because of unusually heavy distributed spam runs - just a 10 minute delay caused all kinds of grief. The end users have come to believe that Internet mail should be as quick as inter-office mail. Unrealistic, yes, but as the sys admin I'm outgunned. My best practices response is a minor delay is far better than allowing viruses to enter the system. The problem, then, is to educate the mail users about the realities of email in the spam age. BTW, the gray listing worked perfectly and the spam runs were handled cleanly leaving me to believe they were from infected Windows drones. There were no retries. dp ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
