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> > How exactly are legitimate messages lost through greylisting? I've |
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> > come up with these: |
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> > 1. legitimate messages that don't retry (someone mentioned Amazon |
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> > newsletters) |
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> The postgrey whitelist included in the build covers some of the major |
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> ones. I'd question these being legitimate emails and I'd question this |
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> being a legitimate way to run your mail system, but this is where you'd |
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> likely see mail lost. |
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Nice. I didn't know postgrey had a default whitelist. |
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> > 2. legitimate messages that take longer than the maximum specified |
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> > retry period to retry (has anyone run into a mail server that takes |
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> > longer than a day to retry?) |
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> No. Most I've seen is 12 hours at a small DSL provider in LA. The |
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> fastest is Hotmail at 30 seconds. |
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Good news. |
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> > 3. legitimate messages that retry from a different server each time |
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> > they retry (someone mentioned that they have seen this) |
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> I've seen Dreamhost do this and I still can't fathom the idea behind it. |
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> unless webserver outgoing connections are originating from a NAT DHCP |
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> pool or something weird. However setting the IP check to be the first 24 |
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> bits, aka match on the class C, makes this go away in every case I'm |
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> aware of. |
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Any drawbacks to that? Is this what you mean: |
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# --lookup-by-subnet strip the last 8 bits from IP addresses (default) |
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or this: |
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# --lookup-by-host do not strip the last 8 bits from IP addresses |
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or something else? |
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> In cases 2 and 3 the original mail sender would get their email returned |
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> after the standard four day timeout whereas the mail goes completely |
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> into the ether in case 1. |
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Why wouldn't the email be returned to the sender in case 1? |
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By the way, I've been greylisting for about 24 hours and spam has been |
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reduced by about 99.5%. |
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- Grant |
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