Am Fr, den 06.08.2004 schrieb D. D. Brierton um 3:11:
I get between 200 and 300 a day. But the trouble is that all the mail is retrieved by fetchmail, from servers where its already been accepted. I don't know if grey-listing would work in those circumstances.
No, in that situation greylisting would be contra productive.
Real time sender verification with your Postfix. I use it for fetchmailed mail with milter-sender integrated into Sendmail. It saves me from a lot of SPAM because many if not most senders of SPAM is faked and thus not existing. This way, with sender address verification the mail is simply discarded. An example from my logs:
Milter: to=fetchmail@metatron.dogma.lan, reject=550 5.7.1 recipient denied, because MX 10 'Vent.mokrohajska-school.sk.' [193.87.162.1] for pkramervb@mokrohajska-school.sk rejected sender. Their reason "pkramervb@mokrohajska-school.sk: User unknown": 1 Time(s) discarded: 1 Time(s)
Best, Darren
Alexander