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From: Erwin Hoffmann <feh@fehcom.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:13:59 +0100
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Hi,

At 22:25 22.02.2007 +0100, Sasa Ugrenovic wrote:
>I filter around 70 % of mail with helo checks, so yes it's needed, and
qmail doesn't have it.
>And that's a fact.
>
>Greylisting was mentioned because it's a feature. Feature that will get
your mail 15 minutes delayed, but it will block ... x % amount of spam, i'm
not gonna die tomorrow (hope so) so that's not much of a problem.
>I don't use greylisting too, btw.

This threat is a lot about fashion.

* Some time ago, badmailfrom filtering with RegEx was such (ridiculious now).
* DNS MF checks was hot (useless these days).
* DomainKeys is still hot (but to restrictive).
* Greylisting even more (will be dismissed soon).
* GreetDelay is well honored (today).

---

Everybody can continue this list by it's own experience.
As time shows, these topics come and go.
Spammers and SpamBots will accustom to the current anti-methods (and survive).

However, one thing remains:
Email has to be delivered reliably. 
And in this respect, qmail (1.0x) scores 100% -- even without patches.

For all the other gadgets, you may have a look at my SPAMCONTROL.

regards.
--eh.

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