Hello,


On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 21:22, John Levine via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
>
> It appears that Bastian Blank via mailop <bbl...@thinkmo.de> said:
> >On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 05:14:17PM +0200, Xavier Beaudouin via mailop wrote:
> >> I use greylisting...
> >
> >So there we have the problem.  Microsoft decided to implement a
> >mailsystem that does not use the same IP for different delivery
> >attempts.
> >
> >Not really common, but not forbidden.
>
> That is extremely common for large ESPs and ISPs.  In my greylister, I fuzz 
> the address
> to /24 in ipv4 and /64 in ipv6, and there's still a few I had to whitelist 
> manually.
>
> Before someone says "oh they must be spammers", no, they're not, I can
> see from the envelope addresses that the mail looks reasonable.
> Anuway, spammers use botnets which don't retry at all. Even after
> greylisting for a decade, 60% of the IPs I greylist never come back.

See SPF-aware greylisting:

https://poolp.org/posts/2019-12-01/spf-aware-greylisting-and-filter-greylist/


Lukas
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