[YLUG] Doug Winters...

[Doug Winter]

Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:02:01AM +0100, Doug Winter wrote:
>> Nicholas Thomas wrote:
>>> Your SMTP is broken ;).
>> It's working fine - that's greylisting.
>>
> One could make a reasonable case that a greylisting implementation that
> keeps mail waiting long enough to generate soft bounces /is/ broken.
 >
> Aside from the fact that it seems to be introducing > 24hour delays in
> your mail, a golden rule of anti-crap systems is that eliminating crap
> from your inbox should not introduce it to someone else's; thus things
> like challenge-response systems and blind sending of spam/virus bounces
> to innocent addresses, are evil. Unless this is a one-off abberation
> this seems like it's being over aggressive.

I hold up the mail by 10 minutes.

If you get soft bounces before 10 minutes are up, your local 
implementation is very broken ;)

doug.

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