alan premselaar wrote: > Rob McEwen wrote: > >>I have a question about greylisting. >> >>Does greylisting **always** involve blocking upon receipt of the SMTP >>envelope and not accepting the rest of the message? >> >>Or, can greylisting alternatively work where it **does** accept the >>**entire** message (for auditing purposes, for example) and THEN returns the >>temporary rejection code?
> however, temporarily rejecting the message after fully receiving it and > processing it kind of defeats the purpose of greylisting. (or at least > one major purpose of it) Yeah, it would still require CPU processing, which is one of the advantages of refusing to accept the mail in the first place. OTOH, it would still have value in terms of keeping spam away from the end-users, which is its own reward sometimes. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
