Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users <mailman-users@python.org> writes: > On 12/13/19 9:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP, >> recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains >> that retry successfully more than a few times. > > The bigger senders are doing things now (more than ever) that they > weren't doing 15+ years ago. Now farms of servers will try to contact > you. The message may first try from one IP, then from another IP, then > from a 3rd.... It may eventually try from the same IP and make it through. > > I think most grey list solutions have an option to specify the network > (frequently configured a a /24) for the sending IP. This significantly > helps with different servers in the same server farm trying to resend > messages.
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