On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:36:07 -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Greylisting is just a wild shot in the dark against statistics
That's an awful lit of handwaving you are performing there. Then again,
we all sit too much, and physical activity is healthy. ;)
> and it is
> entirely counter-productive to all non-abusive email;
Milter (greylist) add: header: X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not
delayed by milter-greylist
i.e. if the mail is submitted from a half-reputable mail server, it
will be waved through, and other means have to be applied for sifting
out the chaff.
> and it does not,
> and cannot, help reduce the need for any other normal verifications and
> anti-spam measures that must be implemented and in place anyway.
The odd bot that it wards off is good enough for me - this is only one
of several means of reducing spam load.
I do thank you for the incentive to beautify the local milter-greylist
log output, but beyond that I don't feel like collecting stats, and am
perfectly happy with the odd positive log entry.
Cheerio,
Hauke
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