[Greylist-users] Exim 4 ACL - greylisting only outside hosts

[Evan Harris]

I think you're misunderstanding the intent of having the filter see outbound
mail.  It isn't so it can delay the mail, it's so it can add records to the
db so that replies to the outbound mails won't be delayed.

See the reverse_track code in my milter.

Evan


On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, William Blunn wrote:

> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, William Blunn wrote:
> >
> > > We would not want the greylister to be invoked for outgoing mail.
> >
> > Depends.  If you are attempting to do reverse reply tracking, you would.
>
> Is that something a lot of people are likely to want to do, or is it a
> niche application?
>
> I think I was thinking more of a sensible default for people wanting
> to do an automated install of a binary package, e.g.
>
>   apt-get install bagley
>
> People might be surprised if this made all their outgoing e-mail be
> delayed by default.
>
> Bill