On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:57:31AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >* Christian Storch: > >>> Things which increase the load on the remote mail servers are *bad*. >>> That would include responding with temporary errors unnecessairly and >>> adding unnecessary delays in communication. pipelining by itself isn't >>> necessairly terrible- adding things like 2 minute delays is bad though. >> >> What about greylisting depending on results of e.g. SA? >> Only above a limit of scores from SA greylisting would be become active. > >This is very impolite because it requires that the entire message is >transferred at least twice.
I thought greylisting closes the smtp connection with a temporary failure immediately to unfamiliar routers. Then they can transmit the message on a second attempt, but since spam relays don't queue, they won't try again. // George -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]