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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 14:00:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: getting tons of SPAM
From: motty cruz <motty.cruz@gmail.com>
To: Steve Bergman <sbergman27@gmail.com>
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yes I guest I could change the variable delay, I will do a quick search to
see how would affect users. some users are very sensitive to this issues.

Thanks a bunch,


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Steve Bergman <sbergman27@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 07/01/2014 03:29 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 19:17 +0000, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:
>>
>>> No mention of RBLs or greylisting ...
>>>
>>>  Quite.
>>
>> When my ISP switched on greylisting my mail immediately went from a
>> spam:ham ratio of 80:20 to one of 20:80
>>
>
> But the variable delay, which is not under your control? My users
> complained loudly about that minority of mails which took an hour to
> arrive. I had to turn it off. Yes, I'm sure the autowhitelist features help
> with time. But we're always receiving mail from new customers whom our mail
> server has never heard from before. And you really don't want to not
> receive a mail from a new customer for an hour or more when you are a
> service company advertising fast and efficient service of your customers'
> restaurant kitchen equipment during the lunch hours.
>
> I did not find greylisting viable for our use case. And I suspect many
> businesses would have similar incompatibilities with the strategy.
>
> -Steve
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">yes I guest I could change the variable delay, I will do a=
 quick search to see how would affect users. some users are very sensitive =
to this issues.=C2=A0<div><br></div><div>Thanks a bunch,=C2=A0</div><div><b=
r></div></div>
<div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 1=
, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Steve Bergman <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:sb=
ergman27@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">sbergman27@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> w=
rote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D""><br>
<br>
On 07/01/2014 03:29 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 19:17 +0000, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
No mention of RBLs or greylisting ...<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
Quite.<br>
<br>
When my ISP switched on greylisting my mail immediately went from a<br>
spam:ham ratio of 80:20 to one of 20:80<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
But the variable delay, which is not under your control? My users complaine=
d loudly about that minority of mails which took an hour to arrive. I had t=
o turn it off. Yes, I&#39;m sure the autowhitelist features help with time.=
 But we&#39;re always receiving mail from new customers whom our mail serve=
r has never heard from before. And you really don&#39;t want to not receive=
 a mail from a new customer for an hour or more when you are a service comp=
any advertising fast and efficient service of your customers&#39; restauran=
t kitchen equipment during the lunch hours.<br>

<br>
I did not find greylisting viable for our use case. And I suspect many busi=
nesses would have similar incompatibilities with the strategy.<span class=
=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888"><br>
<br>
-Steve<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>

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