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List:       postfix-users
Subject:    Re: Please criticize my basic filtering config
From:       LuKreme <kremels () kreme ! com>
Date:       2009-10-27 20:53:07
Message-ID: 25E3E846-19CD-4259-88F9-AB81F8F3D10F () kreme ! com
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On 27-Oct-2009, at 09:00, Harakiri wrote:
> --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
>
>>
>> I reject with zen before greylisting.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your reply - i had thought about it - but since RBL is an  
> external service - it takes more time to go through,

I dunno about that, DNS is very fast. I would not be surprised if it  
was sometimes faster than parsing a greylist database for a triplet.

> therefor i used greylisting before RBL since its a local lookup.  
> Most spam is already catched through greylisting first, not RBL in  
> my opinion.

I find that rejecting with zen first is far and away the best option.  
In fact, I see so little help from greylisting I am seriously  
considering removing it from my arsenal.

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