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

[Robin Sheat]

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 09:11, Michael J. Knox wrote:
> Greylisting by design is meant to reject every email on the first try,
> unless you whitelist a domain. Greylisting only blocks for 10 secs then
> allows the delivery of that email.
Not according to http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/ . It learns about 
senders that are legit, and lets them straight through. Blocking for 10 
seconds would always cause a delay of several minutes, as the sender waits to 
retry, and that would be unaceptable more than once.

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