Spam rejection percentages
Like Sascha, I don't recommend Greylisting. Here are some statistics from our SMTP Proxy. We have about 2.4% of incoming mail that is quarantined, 81.7% is rejected and the rest (about 7 for every mail that was quarantined) is delivered. You can see that very little spam even gets to the point where its "signature" is calculated and checked against CYREN's cloud service.
I bet an experiment would show that no email that would fail greylisting would get past all of the following rejection tests (presented, I think, in the order in which they are checked):
RHDS/HELO 33.8%
RBL 48.0%
BATV 0.5%
Rcpt Verif 17.5%
SPF 0.2%
Cheers - Bob
PS Did disabling Greylisting stop the problem you were seeing with delivered spams?
Spam rejection percentages
Like Sascha, I don't recommend Greylisting. Here are some statistics from our SMTP Proxy. We have about 2.4% of incoming mail that is quarantined, 81.7% is rejected and the rest (about 7 for every mail that was quarantined) is delivered. You can see that very little spam even gets to the point where its "signature" is calculated and checked against CYREN's cloud service.
I bet an experiment would show that no email that would fail greylisting would get past all of the following rejection tests (presented, I think, in the order in which they are checked):
RHDS/HELO 33.8%
RBL 48.0%
BATV 0.5%
Rcpt Verif 17.5%
SPF 0.2%
Cheers - Bob
PS Did disabling Greylisting stop the problem you were seeing with delivered spams?