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

[Cliff Pratt]

Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 21:41, Cliff Pratt wrote:
>> Greylisting is an evil perversion of the SMTP protocol and if I find any
>> servers using it I blacklist them. Nasty obnoxious bandwidth and spool
>> space wasters!
> It's just another form of RFC-compatibility testing. Much less offensive than, 
> say, blacklisting. And besides, it only makes a difference once. After that, 
> all mail goes straight through.
> 
Ha! If the greylist is set up right, then maybe it will go straight 
through. In my experience most greylists are set up wrongly, either 
inadvertently or on purpose, to reject every single email on the first 
try. Every single email.

Cheers,

Cliff