greylisting

Jeffrey Ross jeff at bubble.org
Wed Feb 7 15:04:02 UTC 2007



Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 07:56 -0500, dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us
> wrote:
>   
>> I got greylisting running last night on my mailserver.  Seems to have  
>> cut the number of posts to my mailman mailing lists quite a bit.  I  
>> had well over 700 posts I had to discard the past 3 days and this  
>> morning I had 3.  As far as I can tell all mail is coming in to my  
>> 750+ users also.  Im using relaydely and sendmail.  Wasnt to hard to  
>> get going.  Readme and files included are a little vague, but finally  
>> got the right perl packages in and its up and running.  I'll keep an  
>> eye on it the next few days and see.  What kind of delay is everyone  
>> using for this?  All yea, Im running Fedora Core 6, most of my  
>> packages are from install.  I have installed some perl modules and did  
>> some yum updates, so everything is up to par.
>>     
> ----
> I use 5 minutes
>
> FWIW - I left sendmail/relaydelay a few years ago in favor of
> postfix/sqlgrey/mailscanner/spamassassin/clamav and it's worked very
> well.
>
> Craig
>   

I tried greylisting as well, I am using exim as my MTA.  I found that 
although greylisting worked, I found nightly updating the rules for 
spamassassin worked better they greylisting and as such have dropped the 
greylisting.

Just my experience, your mileage may vary
Jeff




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