On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:48:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le lun 17 juillet 2006 22:29, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :
>> Here is one: I am strongly opposed to greylisting (on mail sent to >> me or that I send), for the reason that it delays legitimate mail. > which shows that you didn't read the discussion Wrong. Disagreeing with you is not the same as not reading your arguments. Sorry that you were not convincing. > that was about enabling greylisting on *certain* *specificaly* > *suspicious* hosts. I know. > a suspicious host is: > * either listed on some RBL's (rbl listing "dynamic" blocks are a good > start usually) > * either having no reverse DNS set > * either having curious EHLO lines (that one may catch too much good > mail sadly, so it's to handle with care). > * ... This will still include legitimate mail. > I apply greylisting on the two first criteriums on a quite used mail > server (around 300.k mails per week, which is not very big, but should > be representative enough). > there is less than 50 mails a week over those that *may* be > legitimate mails that are actually slowed down. Bingo: Legitimate mail slowed down. You think the price is worth it, which is a valid opinion. I happen not to think so. Usually when mail I send gets greylisted, it is because the software thinks I am "suspicious". > so *please* do me a favour, read the thread you are answering to, I did. > because you really really answer miles away from the debate. No, I'm not. I'm expressing an opinion after reading all of the debate, from the points of it I remember. > and if you never actually realized, there *IS* such a slowdown on > debian mail lists, it's called crossassassin, it kills master on a > regular basis, and is *REALLY* less effective than greylisting. I don't remember the "master cannot cope under mail load, we need desperate measures" point being brought up before. I may have missed it. Best Regards, -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
