On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 17:19 +0100, Terry wrote: > So I guess there server just
Where server? > never retried after being grey listed at least not from the same host. Why would you require them to retry from the _same_ host? That seems unnecessary and silly -- many sites will punt 'problematic' mails to another host to be retried periodically, to keep the mail queue on the main servers clear. > Other than not greylisting I take it theres no way of avoiding the > odd incident like this Er, how about greylisting sensibly, instead of badly? :) > ( using postgrey by the way ) . Ah, that explains it. Postgrey is one of the worst implementations of greylisting I've ever encountered. Why aren't you just using Exim's native capabilities? I'd suggest reading http://wiki.exim.org/SimpleGreylisting -- the prose sets out some things that you may want to think about regardless of which greylisting implementation you use, and then there's an example Exim configuration which shouldn't suffer most of the stupid problems that postgrey does. There are still trade-offs which are fundamental to the nature of greylisting, of course, but most of them can be significantly minimised. Especially in comparison with postgrey. -- dwmw2 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
