Got it. Sounds okay to me; a 5-minute delay or even a 30-minute delay is no
problem; especially if it's only on new IPs. I agree that I hadn't noticed
the implementation.

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Jane Gehan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> We have now been running postgrey (http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/) on our
> umn.edu for more than a month. A new IP will see a delay of 5 minutes.
> IPs will then be added to the database and further email from this IP will
> not be grey listed.  We have not had a single user notice that we
> implemented this process.  (We exclude local IPs from being grey listed. We
> believe this has helped us somewhat dramatically in stopping the spammers
> at the door.)
>
> - Jane
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Jane Jewett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> This is of direct concern to me as I run several lists through the U of
>> MN listserv server -- and those lists include lots of non-U of MN
>> subscribers.
>>
>> What are the potential implications for non-U of MN subscribers with use
>> of postgrey?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> What are the implications for list subscribers from outside UMN.EDU?
>>> and do they know it? e.g., maybe it is sufficient for UMN.EDU
>>> subscribers and not necessary (or perhaps not desirable) for non-UMN.EDU?
>>>
>>> Pete
>>>
>>> On 3/28/2017 10:26, Jane Gehan wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello, We are running postgrey on our incoming email servers, except the
>>> listserv server. We are planning to begin using this on our listserv server
>>> soon. We will either share a grey list database with our other servers, or
>>> set one up for use exclusively by the listserv server.
>>>
>>>
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>>
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>> Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
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