On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:33:09PM +0000, Craig Waddington wrote: > I am trying out the postscreen server - and am very impressed > so far. My original interest was in greylisting - so I have the > deep protocol tests turned on so that the temporary failure code > 45x is returned for non-whitelisted clients. > > During my testing - I noticed that the small trickle of spam > that still makes it past postscreen reattempts immediately > after a 45x with no delay, whereas genuine mail will wait at > least a few minutes before reattempting after a 45x.
Could you share logs and spam samples for these? Thanks. IME with greylisting, which admittedly was not very recent, delay time length was insignficant. A 5-second delay was as good as 5 minutes. Some bots retried, others did not. -- Offlist mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header