> 
> Why 53 seconds? Because when you're blocked, you'll retry in 300 
> seconds. If greylisting was going to block any spam, it would 
> have done 
> so with a 2 second delay. And my users complain when mail is delayed.

A real MTA will retry in, at least, 300 sec.

A bot will retry as soon as possible, if ever, because its time is valuable

In two hours a bot could  easily fall in a blacklist.

Because the graylisting is not IP based, but the Sender-Recipient values, it
will not have any side effects for customers.

Choosing a long time to live and configuring good whitelists, will 
help with this also.

> I greylist on these machines by IP address, and as I said, 
> greylisting 
> on these servers seems to only block about 1% of the spam.
> 

I think, if it works as everyone here says, spamdyke is worth a try,
because it doesn't graylist IP, but the tuple (From,To) addresses.

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