On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:12:01PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > Snowshoe spam will most probably pass greylisting too. Better not > > clutter greylisting database with useless things. Have the blacklists > > block'em instead. > > I don't follow your logic here. Yes, most snowshoe is sent from real > MTAs, not bots, so greylisting won't stop it. However, dnsbls and local > block lists aren't very effective against snowshoe either, although > Spamhaus DBL is getting much better WRT snowshoe. I have a local > snowshoe cidr table I've been building for 2 years and it works rather > well as I see maybe 1 snowshoe in the inbox every two weeks or so. > However, most people probably don't have such a local snowshoe blocking > list.
Umm, what's YOUR logic here? Greylisting won't stop it, dnsbls won't stop it? So I guess it's ok to blindly greylist stuff in case it "happens" to stop it? > > So OP's request is valid IMO. > > Shooting mail straight into the inbox based on an SPF pass is not a > valid strategy, but a recipe for more spam in the inbox. SPF is > properly used in a scoring system within a policy daemon or external > content filter such as SA, same as DKIM etc are. Shooting mail straight into inbox? At some point you seemed to understand the original question, but again you seen to have missed the point? He was asking to bypass greylisting, which is fine. How does that make it STRAIGHT into inbox?
