Mel Flynn wrote:
Is it possible to:
a) Put a big-red-blink-popup-attentiongrabbing monster text into the
subscription page about first posts being delayed with a link to greylisting?
b) Hash the bodies of greylisted messages and reject / discard if the same
body with a different msg id is being received?
I'd be happy to contribute to b) if it is thought that the incoming mailer can
handle the hashing and storage of this information.
Hi, ok sorry about that mail yesterday :) I've been off the list for
some time.
It would be great if the confirmation mail and the subscription page
would include the message:
"After confirming/activating your subscription your first mail may be
delayed X minutes due to grey listing"
Also, it would be great to have a descriptive error message, rather than
this:
450 4.7.1 <questi...@freebsd.org>: Recipient address rejected: Service
is unavailable (in reply to RCPT TO command))
This text message indicates an error in the recipients end, while the
450 status indicates it's temporary.
IIRC the postgrey port will provide a message along the lines "sender
postgreyed X seconds, see website for more information."
Your option b) won't work: you propose to reply with a 2XX (OK) or 5XX
(rejected, don't try again) if subscriber sends the message again.
Problem is that the server after receiving the 450 error will retry
after some time and this may be before the sender is white listed. So if
you implement the solution you propose you risk that the original
message is either discarded or rejected.
So, you need to come up with an idea of how to distinguish between the
server resending the same message and the subscriber resending the same
message. If anything, I believe it's most likely that the subscriber
will not send the exact same message, missing some blanks or double
signature line etc...
Now, you could take an active approach, when a subscriber's first
message is grey listed, send an automatic reply that the message is grey
listed for X seconds.
But, then you have the problem that these auto replies will also be sent
to innocent people who are being impersonated by some spammer, or to
non-existing mail addresses which will generate loads of error messages.
Question: Did grey listing actually reduce the amount of spam on the
list? I eventually dumped it as it caused more problems than it solved.
BR, Erik
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Erik Nørgaard
Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org
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