[nzlug] (OT) Sorbs etc, was Exim: Limiting outgoing connections on Debian

[Donald Gordon]

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:12:37 +1300, Tony Wills <ajwills at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> I still get tons of SPAM via my ISP (although the amount that they're 
> syphoning into the Spam folder at their end seems to have diminished).  I 
> get none through my own server which uses greylisting - a very effective 
> idea for small email servers - I get an awful lot of "unexpected 
> disconnectsion"s from spammers that are asked to wait :-)

Greylisting is not terribly wonderful.  It cuts down on some spam, but
breaks an expectation that many users have: that their email is sent
instantaneously.  And I have a client whose odd Mac-based mailserver
package doesn't know what retrying is :-(

donald

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