Greylisting

Greylisting has intrigued me for some time and I'm quite interested in it.

My biggest concern is that I, and many users on the systems I host, require prompt email receipt.

So my first question would be "how long do most mailservers wait before the first retry?"

Jeff
 
My users too require timely delivery. Since greylisting keeps a database of email "relationships", it only delays the very first email. All subsequent emails sail right through.

Each mailserver is different but most seem to retry within an hour or so.
 
Ok. For what it is worth I have exim working with greylisting support. It works beautifully BUT....

it breaks popb4smtp and smtp-auth functionality.

I have it set up so that greylisting can be easily turned off if needed.

I'm a bonehead when it comes to exim configuration. Anyone interested in working together on this to see if we can work out bugs?
 
I can't see how greylisting support would affect either auth method.

Are you using the old or new exim.conf distribution file?

Either way, diff it with the original one as supplied, and then look for changes.

Jeff
 
I'm not interested enough in greylisting to make the time right now but someone else may be.

I don't think we'd need anything but the exim.conf file to check, but please, if you upload them, do it as an include.

Thanks.

Jeff
 
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