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[Alex Broens]

On 6/29/2009 5:47 PM, Gerry Maddock wrote:
>>>>> Alex Broens wrote:
>>>>>> "works for me" != advisable  != 100% safe != under your controll !=
>>> BCP
>>>>> Technically there is no problem with the method.
>>>>>
>>>>> The issue is a moral one - people using this should realise that the
>>>>> owner of tarbaby could very easily start collecting or rejecting mail
>>>>> received for your domain either maliciously or by accident and as
>>> people
>>>>> using this service have no contract with the provider therefore have
> no
>>>>> comeback should this happen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Whilst the same could be said of any blacklists (they could reject
> all
>>>>> your mail either maliciously, on purpose or by accident), but
> pointing
>>>>> one of your MX records to a 3rd party goes a step further than this
> and
>>>>> could allow someone to collect your mail without your knowledge.  For
>>>>> example: instead of sending 451 at DATA, they could easily do it
> after
>>>>> the message has been sent (at dot) and you'd be none the wiser.  It
>>>>> would still function the same as it does now except a copy of the
>>>>> message could be kept.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the end of the day - it's all about trust.
>>>> + not all senders treat a 450 as such.
>>>>
>>>> There an $unknown_count of weird apps out there which don't requeue
> and
>>>> will silently drop a msg after a temp fail.
>>> Greylisting gives the same 450 error. Are you saying greylisting should
> not
>>> be used as best practice as well (instead use smtpd hard & soft error &
>>> sleep times)? Just wondering.
>>>
>> I don't use greylisting - never will - wouldn't recommend it
>>
>> lots of people swear by it, its obviously up to you to balance and
> decide.
> 
> Understood. Are you using any smtp hard/soft/error sleep times at all?

no sleep times - sleep keeps sessions open - I need my sessions to 
process mail, not to give away to spammers.
Years ago I liked greet pause, etc.. bot behaviour has changed, stuff 
changes and I try to be conservative when implementing "new" stuff

Alex