On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:25:01AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On May 29 22:22:35, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:53:40PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> >
> > > It seems that during the SMTP dialogue, spamd says things like
> > > "250 Hello spammer, this is gonna hurt you" and similar
> > > - but it also happens for hosts that are GREY at the time.
> > >
> > > Is that right, and is that expected?
> > >
> > > Jan
> >
> > Yes. Until the host is marked WHITE spamd will handle the connection
> > attempts from that host.
>
> Yes, that's understood. But why does spamd talk like that
> even on the very first connection attempt? (Not that it hurts
> the greylisting process.)
Just because the majorty are spammers? Why is this relevant? Does the
sending mta feel offended or so?
-Otto
