Richard Clayton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes > > >> What I also want to do is have several fake higher IPs that always >> return defer but count as penalty events wiping out the good karma data >> and making the IP start over. >> > > So whenever there is a route flap you penalise everyone... ah well, it's > your email, your decisions :( > Yes - for 5 minutes.
> >> Good email will always try twice. >> > > Except when it doesn't, but not worth labouring that again. > Except is actually does. > >> Spambots don't. >> > > I now regularly see spambots showing up in logs with two connection > attempts a little while apart -- I expect they figure that the worst > that can happen is that two emails get delivered :) and it means that > they don't need to save "state" > With this system the connections have to be in the right order. Lowest numberd MX must be touched first. > >> So it passes 100% of >> your good email and kills 90% of your spam. >> > > Do you actually have data for this "100%" (or for that matter for the > 90%) or are you just guessing that this is what it would be? I ask as > someone who actually publishes data about email > I don't publish my data. However if I were losing email then people would be screaming. The 90% is an estimate for what most people van expect. My servers it's more like 99% but I'm a spam filtering company and my customers tend to have more than an average amount of spam. > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin > > > Something we agree on. :) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
