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

[Michal Ludvig]

Cliff Pratt wrote:

> The usual way that greylisting is set up [...]

Where did you get this "usual way" from?

> is to send a temporary failure
> to the sender's server first time, *and* require a retry within 5, 10,
> or 15 minutes before accepting emails. Some send temporary failures
> twice before accepting emails. In my experience the timeout is much
> shorter than a month, and is often one day.

You're referring to a very badly configured greylisting here and make an 
unfair implication that everyone using greylists must have this wrong 
setup as well. That's certainly not the case. All the popular 
greylisting programs have default settings far far more reasonable than 
this. I'm sure that what you describe here is just one of the exceptions 
that you happened to encounter and from that day you simply hate 
greylists. It's a similar way of thinking that makes people hate all 
Americans just because on of them is known for ... ehm ... his monkey face.

BTW Cliff, you're most welcome to review my mailserver config as you're 
so bold in your statements that all greylisters have it wrong ;-)

Michal