I have also found the greylisting blocks more spam then any other single thing I can do. And it uses less resources that the other things as well.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Woodhouse > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:54 PM > To: Email Archive > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [exim] Issues with greylisting > > On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 16:17 -0500, Email Archive wrote: > > For me greylisting all mail eliminates most of my spam and I hardly > > ever receive any calls regarding it. > > Well, that's the important thing -- if your users aren't > complaining about mail being delayed, then I suppose you're > fine. Although perhaps it's just as well I'm not one of your users :) > > I'm kind of surprised that your motivation is based on CPU > time rather than bandwidth. I've always considered CPU time > to be fairly much free on a sufficiently capable mail server > -- even for SpamAssassin, assuming you have enough RAM. It > would be interesting to know if that remains true for you > after your switch, certainly. > > -- > David Woodhouse Open Source > Technology Centre > [email protected] Intel > Corporation > > > -- > ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ > > > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
