* Pierre Habouzit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050617 17:34]: > > > I perfectly understand what SMTP is, and I perfectly *don't* > > > understand why having a 30 minutes delay or even a 2 or 3 hours > > > delay in some conditions is tolerable. > > > > Come one. We're speaking on additional 5 minutes on the first > > connection. Greylist works quite well for me, and I really hope that > > we manage to deploy anti-spam-tools on Debian. > you didn't read one of my first posts : when the mail you receive > comes from a big big big MX, and that they see a greylisted domain, > since the time is sometimes 5 minutes, somtimes 10 and sometimes 20, > they choose to deliberately let those mail in the queue for 30 to 60 > minutes. if there is 2 or 3 such MX that relay the mail before it > arrives to its final destination, it can induce 2 to 3 hours delays (I > already saw it) and it's painful.
First of all, E-Mail is no real time medium. It was never intended so. Also, skillfull mail admins should whitelist known good hosts. For example, I never greylist any debian.org-host for obvious reasons. :) > Greylisting should *not* be a default rule for incoming mail, it has > to many nasty side effects. Well, actually the amount of spam is the more nasty side effect, especially for those of us who are on good spammed mail accounts. Cheers, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
