On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 08:08:39AM -0700, Razer wrote:
I just took a look at the Wikipedia entry for 'greylisting'. It sounds awful if you're victimized by it. My personal mail from openmailbox to a friend was rejected by yahoo b/c of shit like that and I didn't get a notifcation for three fucking days.
Obviously you've never operated an email server. 99% of all emails arriving on any bigger public mail server is spam. Of course you do everything to minimize spam. Since most spam comes from bot nets which do not implement queueing as required by the RFCs, they are successfully blocked from delivering their spam with greylisting. Of course this method blocks mails coming from mailservers whose operators are stupid morons and do not properly configure queueing. So, if you're blocked because someone uses greylisting, don't blame them, but your mail server admin. Or stop using it and look for some service which respects the standards. Or do it yourself. However - a cypherpunks member whining about email problems? Really? - Tom