[Gllug] spamassassin v bogofilter

Michael Moritz mimo at gn.apc.org
Thu Jun 2 13:31:46 UTC 2005


On Thursday 02 June 2005 13:17, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Michael Moritz wrote:
> > This is a misunderstanding. The receiving SMTP server (the one that does
> > the greylisting) reads the MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, and client address, then
> > checks the greylisting database and issues a 450. This is before the DATA
> > section of the SMTP session.
>
> You are trusting that all other MTAs and MUAs do the "right thing".
> Experience shows that this sometimes is not the case.

What do you mean? My SMTP server disconnects after the greylist check, the 
session is ended. No way the sender can continue sending the mail data as the 
tcp session is closed.

mimo
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