[Gllug] spamassassin v bogofilter

[Rich Walker]

Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net> writes:

> This one time, at band camp, Rich Walker wrote:
>
>> implemented? Delayed is bad enough - but the fact that many people have
>> an ISP whose mail servers fail on meeting a greylisting mail server is
>> enough to make greylisting un-usable in any real situation...
>
> Haven't met one of those.  Nobody I communicate with has had a problem.  
> How would they cope with transient failures of mail servers then?

Qmail has failed to deliver your mail. Sorry it didn't work out.

erm - no - that's not what you mean...

gateway:~--# head -14 /var/lib/greylistd/whitelist-hosts 

# This is a list of manual whitelist entries that have been discovered
# so far for various reasons.

# This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all servers that should be 
# considered legitimate, merely a list of servers that for one reason or 
# another may either have some type of problem with the Greylisting method, 
# or because of a recognized need to avoid the delay that it may cause.

# These are common entries that most people using greylisting will probably 
# want to have.  If you happen to discover ones that aren't in this list, 
# or that the IP's in this list have changed, please let me know at 
# eharris at puremagic.com, after reading the next paragraph carefully.

/var/lib/greylistd/whitelist-hosts includes AOL, Yahoo, EBay,
Ameritrade, Amazon. Clearly, there are other major mail hubs that are
badly configured, and it's not usually possible to use the technical
"fix your mail server" argument on their customers...

To be fair though, it almost completely removed the spam. At the cost of
legitimate mail. 

cheers, Rich.



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