Re: Greylisting BCP

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:11 AM
> To: Anti-Spam Research Group - IRTF
> Cc: Chris Lewis
> Subject: Re: [Asrg] Greylisting BCP
> 
> Greylisting is there and it will exist for some time. There are good and bad
> variations/optimisations, good and bad software configurations... This BCP should not generalize
> saying that all greylisting is bad, even if some people are tempted to
> say so.

The point is not to make a general good/bad statement about greylisting.  The better approach, in my opinion, is to lay out the pros and cons and let the reader decide if it's right for his/her installation.

> It seems to me that this BCP mention only problems caused by the
> filters.

That's not the intent.  It will also point out the benefits.

> What's still lacking in the BCP proposal is a section about the
> behaviour of senders MTAs, which,
> IMHO, causes a lot of problems too.

Good point.

> Some examples of bad things which really causes problems to
> greylistings :
> [...]

Thanks, I've added these to the outline.