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I-D SMTP Extension for Greylisting

2011-10-24 01:34:07

Folks,

An SMTP Extension I-D was posted

        Title           : SMTP Service Extension for Greylisting Operations
        Author(s)       : Hector Santos
                          Evan Harris
        Filename        : draft-santos-smtpgrey-00.txt
        Pages           : 17
        Date            : 2011-10-23

   GREYLIST is a SMTP extension to formalize the widely supported
   Greylisting mail filtering method and to help support SMTP rejected
   transports by following a new formal structured 4yz server temporary
   rejection response by including a retry=time tag string which SMTP
   clients can use to optimize the rescheduling of the mail delivery
   attempts.  With adoption, network overhead reduction in wasteful mail
   delivery attempts will be realized.

URLs:

   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-santos-smtpgrey-00.txt
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-santos-smtpgrey-00

I would like to thank all the people who provided guidance in producing this initial draft. Much obliged. It is far from done so all input and considerations from large, small to mom and pop people would be greatly welcome.

Our mail servers have already implemented the SMTP extension so if you need a test site, you can send mail to:

        test-smtpgrey(_at_)winserver(_dot_)com

If I have written to you in the past privately, you are probably already auto white listed. So use an different sender account if you are interested in testing the server with its 45x greylist responses that now include the proposed retry=time hint information.

In addition, if you are exploring the proposal for your own Greylist server implementation, provide the address info so we can run test as well.

Thanks

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HLS