> Greylisting only delays mails. Proper spammers just use ISP relays and
> then they will try forever. Or they will just nicely do the full SMTP > thing for the first message and try again later, or stall sending to you > as the 450 is recognized and spam run you again later. So many easy ways > around it and it only causes annoyance. I don't know anything about proper spammers. Greylisting has reduced the amount of incoming spam significantly, probably at 90-95%. Of course there are spambots which play around greylisting, but they aren't yet that widely used. > On top of that, I guess you have whitelisted large mail providers like > gmail who try to send a single mail from several IP's, thus hitting your > greylist over and over again, and then just giving up? :) some greylisting packages have their whitelists already pre-filled in the distribution package, so it works quite well (we used http://policyd.sourceforge.net/ , and I have no complaints about this software, and neither do the users. _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
