OT: Grey-listing?

[Kevin Miller]

James Gray wrote:
> For those who are interested, in the first 24 hours of operation our
> spam is down by almost 40% and server load down by about the same.
> Those numbers are
> %-age of what was happening prior to implementing milter-greylist.


Cool.  Sorry for being dense, but in 25 words or less can someone explain
greylisting?  Blacklist and whitelist are obvious, but I'm not quite sure
what happens with a greylist.

Similarly, I enabled greet-pause and the amount of spam in my quarantine
mailbox is down from around 350-500/day to about 150 or so.  It's actually
kind of scary!  Hope I'm not vaporizing a large body of legitimate mail!
But so far nobody is complaining so I presume it's copasetic...


Thanks...

...Kevin
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