Re: OT: linux-kernel list and greylisting

[Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>]

If you absolutely need to graylist (I have my doubts about it's 
effectiveness) then whitelist vger.kernel.org.

Gerhard


On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:46:11 +0200
> From: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
> To: Michael Obster <lkm@obster.org>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: OT: linux-kernel list and greylisting
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > anyone here who has experience with greylisting and the linux-kernel
> > list? I want to configure greylisting on my server but I don't know if
> > this setting is compatible with the list here.
> > What I want to avoid is a massive bounce because of that! So please give
> > me feedback, if greylisting is a problem for the list.
> 
> Greylisting relayed traffic is useless. Greyslisting is also expensive (delays 
> and bounces) so probably that's not what you want. Anyway if you know what 
> you are doing ;-) take a look at this:
> 
> http://aisk.tuxland.pl/os-fp-vs-spam-src.html
> 
> OS based greylisting is a compromise. Gives great results with minimal costs 
> to most of incoming traffic.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Mariusz Kozlowski
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