OT: Grey-listing?

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Kevin Miller
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:46 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: OT: Grey-listing?
>
> 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

Kevin,

What are you using for your GreetPause delay?

Thanks,

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Phone: 202 338-1670
Cell: 202 352-3262
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

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