On 2026-08-11 at 02:44:22 UTC-0400 (Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:44:22 +0200)
Benoit Panizzon via mailop <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
Am 10 Aug 2026 16:46:04 -0400
schrieb "John Levine" <[email protected]>:
That helps but even though I think I invented greylisting about 20
years ago, I don't do it any more. A five second greet pause to newly
seen sending IPs seems to catch about the same set of bots without
the annoying delays and lost mail.
Well, only very stupid bots don't behave correctly and start sending
before they get the correct greeting.
My tiny personal server had 253 pre-greeting datas violations yesterday,
all from IPs I'd never seen before. There are another 406 today, just 13
hours in.
So while those are only very stupid bots, there does not seem to be any
shortage of fresh ones.
--
Bill Cole
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(AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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