[pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-docs 1/1] rephrase greylisting section in pmg-intro

Stoiko Ivanov s.ivanov at proxmox.com
Tue Apr 21 12:43:31 CEST 2020


and mention that the netmask for greylisting is configurable

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
---
 pmg-intro.adoc | 21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pmg-intro.adoc b/pmg-intro.adoc
index e43fd6e..94566c0 100644
--- a/pmg-intro.adoc
+++ b/pmg-intro.adoc
@@ -87,16 +87,19 @@ in message bodies.
 
 Greylisting::
 
-Greylisting an email from a sender your system does not recognize,
-means, that it will be temporarily rejected. Since temporary failures
-are built into the RFC specifications for mail delivery, a legitimate
-server will try to resend the email later on. This is an effective
-method because spammers do not queue and reattempt mail delivery as is
-normal for a regular Mail Transport Agent.
+Greylisting an email means, that it will be temporarily rejected. Since
+temporary failures are part of the the RFC specifications for mail delivery, a
+legitimate server will try to resend the email later on. Spammers on the other
+hand, do not queue and reattempt mail delivery. A greylisted email never
+reaches your mail server and thus your mail server will not send useless "Non
+Delivery Reports" to spammers. Additionally greylisted mail is not analyzed
+by the antivirus and spamdetector engines, which saves resources. Greylisting
+can reduce e-mail traffic up to 50%.
+
 +
-Greylisting can reduce e-mail traffic up to 50%. A greylisted email
-never reaches your mail server and thus your mail server will not send
-useless "Non Delivery Reports" to spammers.
+A mail is greylisted if it is the first mail from a sender to a receiver
+coming from a particular IP network. You can configure which IP addresses
+belong to the same network, by setting an appropriate netmask for greylisting.
 
 SMTP Protocol Tests::
 
-- 
2.20.1




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