[Greylist-users] Greylisting over IPv6

[William Blunn]

On 2004-07-22, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 09:23, William Blunn wrote:
> > Been thinking about IPv6, in as much as new projects should probably now
> > be thinking about IPv6 from the word go.
> > 
> > I have a greylisting system which works fine with IPv4.  I use the top
> > 24 bits of the IP(v4) address as an approximation to the caller's
> > network.
> 
> Why not use the entire address regardless of it is IPv4 or IPv6?

It's explained in the whitepaper

  http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html

Search for the text "pool of outbound mail servers", back up to the
beginning of the sentence, then read three paragraphs.

Bill