Victor Duchovni:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:59:31AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > On th eother hand, making the "PASS NEW" event a trigger for a
> > penalty time should require little new code. I added support for
> > "penalty time" late last year but it is currently unused for lack
> > of a "trigger" mechanism. Penalty time means the client gets 4xx
> > replies until the penalty time expires.
> >
> > Penalty time after "PASS NEW" is a relatively crude mechanism
> > compared to real greylisting, but it might do the job. Perhaps
> > later in the year.
Note, I wrote "PASS NEW".
> What would happen with clients that are "OLD", when their status
> "expires"? While "brand-new" clients can reasonably be asked to come
> back later, should the same apply to clients that are being re-tested
> from time to time? Is the database purge ttl longer than the record
> revalidation ttl? Does postscreen have a concept of re-validation
> vs. initial validation?
Note, I did not write "PASS OLD".
Wietse
