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authormanu <manu@pkgsrc.org>2004-03-04 14:47:56 +0000
committermanu <manu@pkgsrc.org>2004-03-04 14:47:56 +0000
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milter-greylist is a greylisting filter for sendmail, it is extremely
effecitve at reducing spam at the time of this writing.
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+Grey listing is a wonderful spam filtering technique, which uses a
+behavior trick: spammers never resend a message when they get a
+temporary error, whereas real MTA do. The idea is to refuse any mail
+on first attempt, and accept it after some time has elapsed.
+
+milter-greylist is a stand-alone milter writtenin C that implement
+grey listing. It's still quite experimental, but it has been seen
+working on a real life MX.