[Novalug] postfix - greylist before or after RBLs?
Gopher
gopher at 3wa.org
Sun Apr 18 11:54:08 EDT 2010
I'm trying to tune my Postfix config and I've run into a small
conundrum, which should fire first: RBLs or greylisting? I'd like to
have as much non-network related checks fire before having to open
connections from my box. This seems like a reasonable approach as it
should keep the overhead for running Postfix (cpu, memory, bandwidth) as
minimal as possible. (And no, my box/network is not stressed for
cpu/memory/bandwidth, I'm just trying to not waste resources if I don't
have to.)
Greylisting works on the assumption that the sending client is a
non-spambot if they come back later as instructed. Based upon this
assumption, most/all of the spambot generated spam (which I believe is a
very large volume of the spam on the net) should never get past this
point. If the spam does get past my greylisted then the RBLs I have
configured should deal with it.
Agree/Disagree?
thx
Gopher.
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