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Re: [milter-greylist] Greylist database retain tuples timeout same as delay?

2006-09-11 by Oliver Fromme

Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > People sending mail to you from dynamic IP dial-in pools
 > > usually don't let their PC running 24 hours per day.
 > 
 > They also don't send you e-mail directly. If the machine is a SMTP 
 > server, it is not powered off randomly, and if it is not a SMTP server,
 > then it does not send you e-mail directly.

Excatly.  That's exactly what I am thinking.

And that's why it makes sense not to delay dynamic IP pools
for a long time, or to greylist them at all.  Blacklist them.

Best regards
   Oliver

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