rephrase greylisting section in pmg-intro

and mention that the netmask for greylisting is configurable

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
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Stoiko Ivanov 2020-04-21 12:43:31 +02:00 committed by Thomas Lamprecht
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Greylisting:: Greylisting::
Greylisting an email from a sender your system does not recognize, Greylisting an email means, that it will be temporarily rejected. Since
means, that it will be temporarily rejected. Since temporary failures temporary failures are part of the the RFC specifications for mail delivery, a
are built into the RFC specifications for mail delivery, a legitimate legitimate server will try to resend the email later on. Spammers on the other
server will try to resend the email later on. This is an effective hand, do not queue and reattempt mail delivery. A greylisted email never
method because spammers do not queue and reattempt mail delivery as is reaches your mail server and thus your mail server will not send useless "Non
normal for a regular Mail Transport Agent. Delivery Reports" to spammers. Additionally greylisted mail is not analyzed
by the antivirus and spamdetector engines, which saves resources. Greylisting
can reduce e-mail traffic up to 50%.
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Greylisting can reduce e-mail traffic up to 50%. A greylisted email A mail is greylisted if it is the first mail from a sender to a receiver
never reaches your mail server and thus your mail server will not send coming from a particular IP network. You can configure which IP addresses
useless "Non Delivery Reports" to spammers. belong to the same network, by setting an appropriate netmask for greylisting.
SMTP Protocol Tests:: SMTP Protocol Tests::