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

[Robin Sheat]

On Friday 06 October 2006 16:51, Donald Gordon wrote:
> 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.  
There should be no expectation that mail is delivered instantly. The standard 
is to get a notice that it hasn't been delivered after 5 days. Besides, the 
delay only happens once, and is usually 5 minutes. You can't expect someone 
you've never emailed before to respond to an email within 5 minutes anyway.

> And I have a client whose odd Mac-based mailserver 
> package doesn't know what retrying is :-(
If they have a non-RFC-abiding mailserver, they should have no expectation 
that any mail is going to get through at all. That server would fail in the 
face of random network issues, and so shouldn't be used.

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