Re: Comcast & Greylisting

William Blunn <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:53:23 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.greylist.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Barb Dijker wrote:
> Comcast servers retry once a day!

And?

> The secret sauce is to open auto_record_life_secs to 25 hours. No need 
> to whitelist and have to keep up with what IPs they use.
>
> A setting of 25 hours keeps your database somewhat larger, but it 
> doesn't let in more spam than a setting of 5 hours.

Sounds like a broken default to me.

My system defaults to expiring un-retried triples after a week. That is 
the number I came up with on day one a couple of years ago and I've 
never needed to tweak it.

Bill