[Wolves] Email help

David Goodwin david at openminds.co.uk
Fri Apr 16 12:23:09 BST 2004


Jon Farmer wrote:
> David Goodwin wrote:
> 
>>>
>>
>> Grey Listing? is this a spam assassin thing? or something else?
> 
> 
> 
> Grey Listing:
> 
> On first connect the server gives a Server Busy message which means the 
> sending server should try again later. The IP address of the sending 
> server is logged and when they try again if the IP matches the log then 
> the mail is accepted.
> 
> This approach works as most spam these days is sent via hijacked 
> machines which do not have spooling facilites.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jon
> 

Ah. My Ex-Uni does this. It's also quite annoying as it means email 
takes significantly longer to arrive.

Is it done with the MTA (sendmail/postfix etc) or some other program?

David.
(Too lazy to google at the moment)



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