[adding CC to current package maintainer] On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 07:42:05PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Howwever I have grown quite strongly oppoesed to add special > (disabled by default) greylisting code to the default configuration. > Judging from reading exim-users there seem to be two widely different > approaches to greylisting: Hmm, okay. I guess with the choice of multiple implementations you don't want to be stuck in between them. > #1 run it very early (after rcpt verification) since it is cheap on the > recipient side > #2 run it late, only for suspicious senders (i.e. after DATA, for high > spam-scores) > > Also at least for #2 people often do away with the daemon and use > exim's sqlite lookup http://wiki.exim.org/SimpleGreylisting > > There are multiple daemons available, most requiring different setups. > (Me personally I am using postgrey.) So it's possible that greylistd doesn't provide any real benefit if it's possible to implement similar things without any extra code. It sounds like I should spend a bit of time looking at the various options before committing time to significant updates to greylistd. Thanks for the prompt reply. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
