Milter-greylist

"Marcus Schopen lists-yahoogroups@... [milter-greylist]"
<milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> writes:

>> On the other hand, a host being on a bad blocklist leading to big
>> delays and getting taken off is going to cause all sorts of problems,
>> and people delaying mail for 12h instead of 15m does not seem likely
>> to rise to the top.
>
> Could you technically explain the last point please?

What I mean is that if a host gets put on an RBL that indicates such bad
behavior that people want to delay mail for 12h, then it's likely that
other anti-spam software will apply other penalties to that host, such
as high scores, just rejecting SMTP connections, etc.    So if the big
problem is that when it's taken off the list you think the greylist
timer should drop to 15m immediately, but that it still gets 12h from
the time it first tried, that's perhaps not as serious as what other
people will be doing based on having been on this blocklist.