I run a mail server with OpenBSD's spamd[1] with greylisting and it works well e...

sdkmvx on March 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: IT Pro confession: I contributed to the DDOS attac...

I run a mail server with OpenBSD's spamd[1] with greylisting and it works well enough. Most spam is not sent by SMTP compliant hosts. Blacklisting makes it particularly hard to recover IPs that have ever been compromised and unfairly hurts good hosts on otherwise untrustworthy (like some home ISPs) networks.

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/

vidarh on March 28, 2013 [–]

Greylisting is what makes the biggest difference for us too.