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Re: Measuring "should I greylist?" false positive rate [was: greylisting on debian.org?]



Le mar 18 juillet 2006 10:00, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:48:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Le lun 17 juillet 2006 22:29, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :
> >
> >
> > the discussion (...) was about enabling greylisting on *certain*
> > *specificaly* *suspicious* hosts. a suspicious
> > host is:
> >  * either listed on some RBL's (rbl listing "dynamic" blocks are a
> > good start usually)
> >  * either having no reverse DNS set
> >  * either having curious EHLO lines (that one may catch too much
> > good mail sadly, so it's to handle with care).
> >  * ...
> >
> > I apply greylisting on the two first criteriums on a quite used
> > mail server (around 300.k mails per week, which is not very big,
> > but should be representative enough).
> >
> > there is less than 50 mails a week over those that *may* be
> > legitimate mails that are actually slowed down.
>
> On second thought, I'm very interested in how you measured this false
> positive rate. Do all the recipients of the 300k mails per week check
> for every mail if it was greylisted (that means you would put a
> header or something like that saying "this mail was greylisted"?),
> and they _always_ check on _every_ legitimate mail and _always_
> report false positives to you? Probably not. So, are these 50 mails a
> week all the mail that undergoes greylisting but *still* goes through
> (i.e. gets retried, roughly)? Something else?

it's the number of mails that are beeing resubmited per week with my 
system. so in fact, in them, there is 49 spams.
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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