[Greylist-users] Greylisting over IPv6

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Thu Jul 22 08:09:57 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 10:28, William Blunn wrote:
> 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.

Ah!  Your comment "pool of outbound email servers" was enough to make me
understand.  

Thanks.

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Scot L. Harris
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