Re: Debian Weekly News - July 26th, 2005

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Greylisting for Debian Hosts. Santiago Vila would like the project to
> [5]consider using greylisting, a technique to delay mails, on Debian
> hosts. Rich Walker [6]explained that some mail servers can't cope
> with such delays. Florian Weimer [7]added that zombie software that
> is locked out with greylisting will probably be improved in the
> future, leaving greylisting without effect. Marc Haber [8]noted that
> [9]exim runs the queue every 30 minutes, which would be a significant
> for many users.

Thanks for the note, but your summary is biased, considering that my
proposal was to use greylisting, a good DNSBL, or both.