On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:43 AM Ralph Seichter wrote:
> Yeah, delays... Used to be people understood the difference between
> asynchronous messaging (i.e. email) and instant messaging. Nowadays it
> seems that no day goes by without somehing along these lines:
>
> "Hi. We have not seen you
Based on another thread here, I want to move to using postscreen/postwhite
and ditch postgrey.
Just want to make sure I don't bungle stopping postgrey.
So...
- edit main.cf and remove "check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10023" from
smtpd_recipient_restrictions.
- restart Postfix
- purge the
Charles Sprickman:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a site with a very old domain that's at the front of the
> alphabet. For some reason (age, alphabetical order, ???) that
> domain gets bombarded with spam before the senders make it onto
> any of the blacklists I use (even trialed a few for-profit
>
> On 24 May 2020, at 13:05, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
>
>
>> On May 24, 2020, at 3:59 PM, Laura Smith
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I’ve been sort of opposed to greylisting in the past due to a userbase
>>> that’s sensitive to delays, but… the spam is worse.
>>>
>>
>>
>> IMHO Greylisting is
Laura Smith writes:
> I should also add that you should not be afraid to pay for access. The
> good lists will (a) block you if you hammer them with high volumes of
> requests (b) save some of their better content (or new innovations)
> for their paid subscribers.
We paid for access to spamhaus
> On May 24, 2020, at 3:59 PM, Laura Smith
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I’ve been sort of opposed to greylisting in the past due to a userbase
>> that’s sensitive to delays, but… the spam is worse.
>>
>
>
> IMHO Greylisting is rather pointless. Its a blunt tool, and not only that it
> does that
>
> I’ve been sort of opposed to greylisting in the past due to a userbase that’s
> sensitive to delays, but… the spam is worse.
>
IMHO Greylisting is rather pointless. Its a blunt tool, and not only that it
does that unforgivable thing of annoying genuine people.
I would hazard a guess that
On 23 May 2020, at 08:52, Thomas wrote:
> or
The norm is to use an address along the lines you describe there. I use
no-reply@. Emails to that address are accepted and discarded. Do not
use a fake domain or someone else's domain, of course. You can certainly have
the address be invalid so it
On 21 May 2020, at 12:49, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> I was wondering if greylisting might be a good option here.
It's a matter of how much Nanking you are willing to do and how much legitimate
mail your are willing to lose.
The usual method of greylisting where you tell a server to try again
