RE: [vps-mail] Customer reactions to greylisting?

["Brian Haines" <providertalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote guru="Bennett Lanford">
The only possible drawback is that when a sender *first* sends an e-mail to
a particular recipient on your server, your server returns a
*temporary* failure response, forcing the sending server to queue the mail
until its next queue run (typically 20-60 minutes). Compliant SMTP servers
will all queue the mail and deliver it within that time period. Windows
trojans and most spam generating programs, OTOH, won't try a second time, so
the the SPAM is never delivered. When the mail is finally delivered, that
sender/recipient/IP-address triple is "remembered" for a
(configurable) period of time--typically 5-30 days--so that subsequent
deliveries are instantaneous.
</quote> 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Matt Cohen
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:57 PM
To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [vps-mail] Customer reactions to greylisting?

But how long is a 'period' - what time values are you using?  Can it be set
to as low as delay an email for 2-3 minutes?  Does that do any good then?

Matt
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Matt Cohen
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...... Original Message .......
On Tue, 10 May 2005 13:29:48 -0400 "Brian Haines" 
<providertalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>That won't be an issue because when mail gets through the system 
>remembers them for a period of time.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>On Behalf Of Matt Cohen
>Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:15 PM
>To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [vps-mail] Customer reactions to greylisting?
>
>I'm curious - are you doing greylisting on your own personal boxes or 
>for customers as well?  I had run the greylisting idea past a few of my 
>clients and while they would appreciate spam-reduction, they were a 
>little wary of having to wait a half-hour to get an email from a client 
>or contact of theirs.
>
>Some of them talk about being on the phone with someone and having them
send
>an email, which with greylisting they wouldn't get all right away.
>
>How have you approached your clients on this feature?  Or am I 
>mis-understanding the greylisting functions?
>
>Matt
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