On 10884 March 1977, Josip Rodin wrote: >> The default delay of greylistd is 1 hour. This seems *way* to large, a >> value of 600 or even 300 would be better. > Lowering the default timeout so drastically (to just 5 or 10 minutes) as a > default does not strike me as an idea that is particularly feasible in the > medium-term, because that will allow spammers who want to avoid greylisting > to have to make even fewer effort to avoid greylisting.
60 minutes is just way to much. > If, say, you were a spam software writer who wanted to implement a retry > rule, if you only have to wait ten minutes per each mail, there's less of > a chance that you would get noticed by the user of the infected machine. You really think users notice what happens on their machines? If that would be true there wouldnt be as much crap out there as it is now. > However, another reason why 5 or 10 minutes isn't particularly useful is > that most normal free MTAs have retry rules set to attempt delivery after > fifteen minutes or so (Sendmail default is 0, 15, ..., Exim default is 0, > 15, ..., Postfix default is 0, 16.6, ..., Qmail default is 0, 6:40, 26:40, > ...), so basically anything less than ~14:50 is not generally useful, anyway. Well. Even 15 is better than the default of 60. 60 is just way to large, in any case. -- bye Joerg <Getty> meebey: Ich kanns Dir remote machen;) <Getty> oh mann... erst denken dann schreiben
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