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Charles Marcus wrote:
>> Setting GreetingDelay to 1.5 seconds reduced the number of messages to
>> be processed from 60000 a day to 30000 a day.
> 
> Wow! Not bad...
> 
> Question though - how reliable is this technique, with respect to false 
> positives (blocking legitimate mail)?
> 


This is why I like techniques like this, typically there is no false
positive because any email that is delayed will depend on the senders
email server to retry or not time-out.

Most spam tools know that they are full of bogus messages so they don't
retry, all legit mail servers know how to retry, even if they don't have
adjustable timeouts. (as I recall its part of the RFC's that they retry)

If you do run across a legit sender that does not retry can be added to
the whitelist.



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