On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 09:13 -0700, Lonnie Olson wrote: > Chris Carey wrote: > > What configuration options are you all using? I have the delay set to > > 1 minute (I believe the default is 5 minutes). Do you find that a > > longer delay actually helps significantly more? From what I remember > > in the documentation, the theory is that in that delay time, the > > chances of the spamming source getting put on a blacklist increases. > > This way, when the message finally makes it through, its finally on a > > blacklist and spamassassin has a better chance of catching spam. Do > > you find this to be the case? > > Since greylisting is to keep spammers out, who don't retry at all, any > delay greater than 5 seconds should be good enough.
You'd think so, but I have seen spammers who retry. It would be interesting to do an analysis of it but I've never quite been that motivated. I can say that after I added greylisting, my spam levels have dropped off quite a bit. It's worth the wait to me. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
