On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:25:01AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On May 29 22:22:35, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:53:40PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > > > > It seems that during the SMTP dialogue, spamd says things like > > > "250 Hello spammer, this is gonna hurt you" and similar > > > - but it also happens for hosts that are GREY at the time. > > > > > > Is that right, and is that expected? > > > > > > Jan > > > > Yes. Until the host is marked WHITE spamd will handle the connection > > attempts from that host. > > Yes, that's understood. But why does spamd talk like that > even on the very first connection attempt? (Not that it hurts > the greylisting process.)
Just because the majorty are spammers? Why is this relevant? Does the sending mta feel offended or so? -Otto