Slightly OT: Greylisting success or failure stories?

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Sun Feb 6 23:49:39 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 17:23, David Cary Hart wrote:

> After eight months, the same nitwits were still spamming, the instant
> that the new MX was propagated, to the tune of 3,000 emails per day to
> former employees. A timeout on a dead link is as expensive as it gets.

That doesn't mean that they are re-trying on the same messages, it means
that they keep using the same old lists.  If you tmp_fail these
messages, it is unlikely that they will try again with the same message
and you won't have to deal with them.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com





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