Email - Greylisting

[JamesB]

I received an email from web host stating they have implemented a new spam block filter called greaylisting. I turned this function on on both my domaines so we will see how it goes.

Anyone else use this feature from their hosting provider?

James

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Increased Spam Protection: Greylisting Available
Here at ReadyHosting, we are always on the lookout for new ways to reduce the amount of spam that our customers receive. Over the past several weeks, we've been testing greylisting on our hosting platform as an additional layer of spam protection.

Greylisting uses access lists to handle the delivery of mail on a domain level. A whitelist is comprised of recognized or allowed senders, and a blacklist is comprised of blocked senders--a greylist, then, is made up of unrecognized senders.

How it works: if a message is sent to you, and the sender's address is on neither your whitelist nor your blacklist, the message will be greylisted and temporarily rejected. If that message is legitimate, the server that it came from should resend the message, and our servers will then deliver it to you automatically. The sender's address will then be added to a temporary whitelist for seven days. (Please note that greylisting can sometimes cause a slight delay in mail delivery.)

[babybluetx23]

I work for Verizon Online and we have something similar. It has been a work in progress for the last 6 months. we also have something called whitelisting which allows you to place safe senders and safe domain names on a whitelist.

[JamesB]

I looked at doing the white list (and blacklist), but I really dont want to maintain a list. Im lazy so the greylisting looks promising

James

[agillette]

I have my own servers and have something similar installed on them, and the firewall. It works great. I hardly ever get any spam, nore do my customers.

Regards,

AG

[JamesB]

since I posted this I will say i am very happy with the grey listing option my hosting company has set up.

I thinK i have received 2 spam emails since then. However some valid emails got stuck and I had to whitelist the domain, no biggie since they were just daily news letters and deals from buy.com and dell deals.

James