> I guess I see a distinction without a difference. Greeting delaying is > a way to "draw your opponent offsides" to use a football analogy. > > greylisting is more like a "time out charged to the officials" that does > not really penalize either player and play can not continue till the ref > calls "time in." > > I see value in both approaches, am I missing something?
I love the analogies! I think the point that Fritz was making is that you can see greylisting in the logs, and can eventually figure out why email wasn't allowed through, whereas greeting delay won't really show much. ASSP just sees the connection host as an invalid connection (since there was no valid communication with the connecting MTA), so there is no way to know if the MTA isn't following RFC specs (waiting for the greeting), or if it was just a random errant connection that was dropped. There is definitely value in both approaches, but I can understand why it would be a lot more difficult to track down why email from a valid MTA isn't being accepted if the MTA isn't RFC compliant. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
