[parisc-linux] greylisting test

[Kyle McMartin]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 07:40:24PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> John David Anglin wrote:
> >>On 3/1/07, Kyle McMartin <kyle at mcmartin.ca> wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:38:13AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> >>>>let's see if this works...
> >>>>
> >>>X-Greylist: delayed 514 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at palinux; Thu, 01 Mar 
> >>>2007
> >>>08:49:49 MST
> >>>
> >>>Ok. Let's hope this cuts down some of the spam to @parisc-linux.org
> >>>even more...
> >>Thanks dude!
> >
> >The downside is increased delay and probability of messages
> >being lost.  The company that I do most of my work for hasn't
> >been very happy with its mail service provider.  It uses
> >greylisting.  On the otherhand, it may work better for a list.
> 
> Does this list get a lot of spam? I've only been subscribed to it for a 
> about a month, but I haven't seen any at all. Is my SA setup just that good?
> 

the list isn't effected because it's not hosted on palinux. this effects
*@parisc-linux.org, which, for me at least, receives way too much spam.

the list gets no spam these days because non-subscriber messages are silently
queued (silently, because people tend to whine about it.)