Volition

Given I have nothing better to do at 1am on a Tuesday morning, that current spam levels are really starting to annoy me and that configuring dspam on a Sendmail+Cyrus installation is a pain in the ass that I'd rather procrastinate over rather than actually do something about, I've installed milter-greylist on my mail server.

Greylisting is a more complete, pragmatic approach to something I jokingly suggested before: temporarily blocking incoming messages in an attempt to stop spammers that deliver direct to your mail server. The general idea being if they try once and delivery fails, they won't try again.

On the positive side, greylisting should result in less spam. On the negative side it means every legit message will be delayed a bit (although I do currently have the timeout set to a nimble four minutes) and people may have problems recieving mail send via particular broken mail servers. Since I have no real metrics about the amount of spam I get, I'll have to go by feel to see if it makes any difference.

Let me know if you're someone@vee.net and want it enabled for your account as well.