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In my 19 years of greylisting, I have yet to have legitimate email fail due to it. And it was one of the easiest ways to significantly decrease the amount of sp
by spc476 9mo ago
In my 19 years of greylisting, I have yet to have legitimate email fail due to it. And it was one of the easiest ways to significantly decrease the amount of spam. It's been worth it in my opinion.
- wiredfool 9mo agoGreylistibg is very effective in my experience, but there are definitely some confirm your email loops that won’t work without whitelisting. It’s a combination of multiple ip addresses and retry times greater than the life of the code.
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- andrewaylett 9mo agoYou may have not realised that legitimate email has failed (and it might even be true) but my experience suggests it's unlikely that it hasn't happened. I only have a handful of users, but when I was greylisting I'd get reports of missing mail at least annually. Which isn't to say it's not worth it, although nowadays I'd recommend that https://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html https://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html pre-greet checks are just as good at stopping spam and better at not blocking legit mail.