Re: [Sqlgrey-users] auto-whitelisting google/gmail/yahoo

[Alex <mys...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Karl O. Pinc <ko...@me...> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 20:39:57 -0400
> Alex Regan <mys...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> It appears the default installation includes an auto-whitelist entry
>> for google.com and yahoo.com.
>>
>> Is there a particular reason for this that would prevent me from
>> removing it? I'm seeing quite a bit of spam that I believe could
>> otherwise be blocked if the whole domain wasn't whitelisted.
>
> The google and yahoo servers are going to obey the rules
> and retry after an appropriate interval and deliver
> the spam anyway.  You may as well reduce the load and
> accept it immediately.

Ah, right, makes sense.

> They may or may not also resend from a different box,
> doing a round-robin on outbound mail gateways.
> Mail (probably) eventually gets delivered when all the boxes (IPs)
> are whitelisted.  But it means that legitimate mail
> can get overly delayed.  (Dunno who's doing this any more.)

I'm using db_cluster to avoid this. round-robin issue. This was one of
the main reasons I chose sqlgrey over the others like postgrey. Is
this not what you're talking about?

Thanks,
Alex