Jan Stary wrote:
On May 29 22:22:35, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
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.)
Beyond that, it's actually a feature. Those messages are generally
there as informational, only the number code is paid attention to. But
spammers often try to be "clever" and give up on tarpits. So leaving it
there may weed out more spammers while not impacting legitimate email
working through the greylist.
That's also why spamd in greylisting stutters for the first 10 seconds.
Many spammers disconnect now when stuttered at, so they give up before
even starting the greylisting process.
--Kurt
