On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:14:42AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> * On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:48:06AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > SAV is different to VRFY, and the combination of SAV and greylisting is
> > really broken. I suggested to Chris that he turn SAV off, because it ends up
> > being more problematic than it's worth.
> 
> Well, still not sure if it's VRFY or SAV causing the problem. A couple
> of questions:
>     * I've got verify disabled in postfix, as an anti spammer measure
> (disable_vrfy_command = yes) - should I have it turned on? Would this
> solve this VRFY problem?

No. It's essentially the greylisting from SLUG's mail server in effect. Your
Postfix should hold your mail in the queue and retry the delivery after a
specified time, as per the RFCs. Once the delivery is successful (yes, the
SLUG mail server would accept your delivery after a specified time also),
then your mail server IP (I think) should be cached in a whitelist, thus you
shouldn't get that sort of delay again.

>     *  would SAV problem be fixed by setting up Sender Policy Framework
> (SPF) on my server? Or is this an unrelated fix?

Not sure if the SLUG mail servers supports SPF. SLUG mail server admins?

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