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I know most people can't use it due to needing email to be instant, but at least for my personal mail I've found greylisting to work wonders. What it does is t
by Dobbs 17y ago
I know most people can't use it due to needing email to be instant, but at least for my personal mail I've found greylisting to work wonders.
What it does is tell the sender that it is busy/something is wrong and to call back later. It then makes a note of this. When the person calls back it will then accept the mail and add the address to a whitelist.
This works because most spammers don't use a rfc complaint mail server and don't care to call back. It is cheaper to just move onto the next target.
- Tichy 17y agoI use it and it helped somewhat, but spam still gets through. Also, it can at best be a temporary solution. It wouldn't be that hard for spammers to upgrade their mail servers. Meanwhile, I have to live with a delay in receiving emails caused by greylisting.