Re: 2. Greylisting

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:36:07 -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Greylisting is just a wild shot in the dark against statistics

That's an awful lit of handwaving you are performing there. Then again, 
we all sit too much, and physical activity is healthy. ;)

> and it is
> entirely counter-productive to all non-abusive email;

Milter (greylist) add: header: X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not 
delayed by milter-greylist

i.e. if the mail is submitted from a half-reputable mail server, it 
will be waved through, and other means have to be applied for sifting 
out the chaff.

> and it does not,
> and cannot, help reduce the need for any other normal verifications and
> anti-spam measures that must be implemented and in place anyway.

The odd bot that it wards off is good enough for me - this is only one 
of several means of reducing spam load.

I do thank you for the incentive to beautify the local milter-greylist 
log output, but beyond that I don't feel like collecting stats, and am 
perfectly happy with the odd positive log entry.

Cheerio,
Hauke

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