hi,

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> No, that's not what passtime means, and not how spamd works either.
> (Read the man page for details;

i did read the manual.  and have questions.  which is why i'm here.

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> passtime has to do with the time between subsequent connects,

*PER* the manual,

"After passtime minutes if spamd sees a retried attempt to deliver
mail for the same tuple, spamd will whitelist the connecting address
by adding it as a whitelist entry to /var/db/spamd."

So, If I set passtime to "1 min", then if the sendedr attempts
reconnect after that 1 min, it's added to whitelist and spamd is
bypassed -- connecting *directly* to the 'real' mail server.

my question is about what happens @ passtime *EQUALS* zero.

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> and using spamd and having people connect
> directly to your mail server is mostly mutually exclusive.)

once whitelisted, senders ARE directly connected.

my point is that I'd like to NOT greylist, but ONLY greytrap.

it seems the only options are:

(1) BLACKLIST ONLY
(2) GREYTRAP & GREYLIST & BLACKLIST

can GREYLIST be effectively disabled by by passtime=0?

or, can TRAPPING be enabled in blacklist-only mode?

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> Just use your favourite MTA's blacklisting feature.

That's an obvious option.  I'm not interested in using the MTA for
this.  I'm intersted in using spamd @ my edge box to NOT pass traffic
to my MTA on another box.

My question is about using spamd to GREYTRAP, but not GREYLIST.