Too many "false positives" !?!
"Allan E. Johannesen" <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "orinoco01" == orinoco <[email protected]> writes: orinoco01> That does not correspond with the promises on several wesbites orinoco01> claiming almost no false positives from greylisting. Didn't they orinoco01> counter-check? Are there so many non-RFC-compliant MTAs out there? orinoco01> Or what's going wrong here? orinoco01> It's an underdog job to check for false positives, not to mention orinoco01> repairing the communication damage. And I can't whitelist all orinoco01> innocent non-RFC-comnpliant MTAs on the world. orinoco01> Additionally some web-mail providers like hotmail hide the orinoco01> greylisting error message from their customers, generating a orinoco01> delivery failure message of their own, if they notify at all. Yes, it's an annoyance to try to track down these places. I've had to whitelist sourceforge, earthlink, cox.net, the facebook, and doteasy.com. When people lose mail due to greylisting, they don't blame the broken senders, they place the blame here.