On Tuesday 20 July 2004 15.46, Russell Coker wrote: > It's not similar to TMDA in that it normally should not bother users, > as opposed to TMDA which is specifically designed to annoy people. The similarity is that it requires an extra step by the sender, which is why most spammers/viruses fail. Only, the extra step is fully automated (which is why, over time, postgrey will probably be defeated by some of the spammers) > > - server pools which don't send out the second try from the same > > IP. > This will still work eventually, it may just take more time. > How many such server pools are there? There are quite a few, apparently, but as my box only has a few personal accounts, I'm not the one who can give accurate statistics. Before postgrey switched to lookup by subnets, there were 10 or 15 pools in the whitelist, IIRC. (personally, I saw google's outbound mailservers - gmail and newsalerts - and hostpoint.ch in Switzerland) > > [0] I maintain the postgrey Debian package, as you may have guessed > > from the style of this email :-) > Any chance of back-porting it to woody? I'm not sure I can upgrade > my mail server to unstable at the moment... As I've said, the main problem is that it requires postfix 2.1, which will be the bigger problem. greetings -- vbi -- Protect your privacy - encrypt your email: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro
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