Propor calm down.

I'm using greylisting since ages and have no problem with gmail and such. 
Google uses mailnly 2, maybe 3 IPs. Mails may sometime arrive a bit later, it's 
true but it's not a serious issue...

Andrea Brancatelli
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Il giorno 30/dic/2010, alle ore 18:54, "Tomas Kuliavas" 
<[email protected]> ha scritto:

> 2010.12.30 19:29 Gordan Bobic rašė:
>> Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
>> 
>>>>>    Can I collect opinions here about favorite/least favorite spam
>>>>>    filtering packages, for use in a dbmail environment?
>>>>> 
>>>>>    What have you had luck with? What works best? What's your opinion?
>>>>>    Which should a happy dbmail (postfix) user, now getting too much
>>>>>    spam, use for filtration?
>>>>> 
>>>>>    TIA, Lou Picciano
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm using sqlgrey (postgrey implementation with database (mysql)) and
>>>>> spamassassin. So far so good. sqlgrey is the best tool (to my
>>>>> knowledge)
>>>>> for front-line protection against spam before spamassassin takes over
>>>>> the job. I'm welcome for other suggestions.
>>>> So, you don't mind not receiving mail from multi-homed hosts (*cough*
>>>> gmail *cough*)? Greylistting's very concept is broken by design.
>>> 
>>> So using myriad of outgoing email servers is not something unusual.
>> 
>> You are missing the point. Consider this scenario. A server has multiple
>> NICs on different networks, all routing to the internet. The default
>> route gets rotated around (when it expires, after a few minutes) in
>> order to load balance. This sort of a setup is fairly common on big
>> installations (helps with resiliency, too).
>> 
>> So, such a server gets a message in it's outbound spool. It tries to
>> deliver it to you via one of it's several routes/NICs. You see the
>> connection, greylist it and temporarily reject. Server goes away for a
>> bit. By the time it retries, the route has expired, and you get an
>> incoming connection from the same server but from a different source IP.
>> Your greylist hasn't seen that IP, so you temporarily reject again. This
>> can go on forever. Some of your mail might get lucky and get through.
>> Most will probably get massively delayed, and some will likely keep
>> bouncing in the outgoing spool until it expires and bounces back,
>> several days later.
> 
> So network design with routes that last less than couple of hours is
> perfectly ok? Trying to feed same email from different locations is
> exactly what spammer would do.
> 
>>> Anyone who does not like some tool can call it broken by design.
>> 
>> You are mixing up cause and effect. I dislike tools if they are broken.
>> I don't call them broken because I dislike them.
> 
> If you have information that tool has problems with some types of
> networking setups, you should say that it has problems with such setups.
> Tool works fine with other servers. Design is not broken. Calling
> something broken by design does not show what is broken in design. It only
> shows that you dislike the tool.
> 
> -- 
> Tomas
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