From: Benjamin Donnachie (benjaminpy-soft.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2007 - 17:13:43 CST

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Rene van Hoek wrote:
> In my opinion, greylisting should be done after blacklists. If you trust
> a blacklist, you will not accept an e-mail from the connected host
> anyway. So, there is no reason to store the tripple record in the
> greylisting database.

I prefer to have greylisting before the rbls - that way most spam
messages are rejected with a quick local lookup.

> This has the posistive side-effect that the greylisting database is kept
> small, so it will have an better performance.

This has the positive side-effect that slower remote lookups are kept to
a minimum and only carried out when really necessary. Also reducing the
load on over stretched rbls.

I guess it's down to personal preference! :)

Ben

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