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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                      M. KucherawyRequest for Comments: 6647                                     CloudmarkCategory: Standards Track                                     D. CrockerISSN: 2070-1721                              Brandenburg InternetWorking                                                               June 2012Email Greylisting: An Applicability Statement for SMTPAbstract   This document describes the art of email greylisting, the practice of   providing temporarily degraded service to unknown email clients as an   anti-abuse mechanism.   Greylisting is an established mechanism deemed essential to the   repertoire of current anti-abuse email filtering systems.Status of This Memo   This is an Internet Standards Track document.   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has   received public review and has been approved for publication by the   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on   Internet Standards is available inSection 2 of RFC 5741.   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained athttp://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6647.Copyright Notice   Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the   document authors.  All rights reserved.   This document is subject toBCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal   Provisions Relating to IETF Documents   (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of   publication of this document.  Please review these documents   carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect   to this document.  Code Components extracted from this document must   include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of   the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as   described in the Simplified BSD License.Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                    [Page 1]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012Table of Contents1. Introduction ....................................................31.1. Background .................................................31.2. Definitions ................................................42. Types of Greylisting ............................................42.1. Connection-Level Greylisting ...............................42.2. SMTP HELO/EHLO Greylisting .................................52.3. SMTP MAIL Greylisting ......................................52.4. SMTP RCPT Greylisting ......................................52.5. SMTP DATA Greylisting ......................................62.6. Additional Heuristics ......................................72.7. Exceptions .................................................73. Benefits and Costs ..............................................84. Unintended Consequences .........................................94.1. Unintended Mail Delivery Failures ..........................94.2. Unintended SMTP Client Failures ...........................104.3. Address Space Saturation ..................................115. Recommendations ................................................126. Measuring Effectiveness ........................................137. IPv6 Applicability .............................................148. Security Considerations ........................................148.1. Trade-Offs ................................................148.2. Database ..................................................149. References .....................................................159.1. Normative References ......................................159.2. Informative References ....................................15Appendix A.  Acknowledgments ......................................17Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                    [Page 2]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 20121.  Introduction   Preferred techniques for handling email abuse explicitly identify   good actors and bad actors, giving each significantly different   service quality.  In some cases, an actor does not have a known   reputation; this can justify providing degraded service, until there   is a basis for providing better service.  This latter approach is   known as "greylisting".  Broadly, the term refers to any degradation   of service for an unknown or suspect source, over a period of time   (typically measured in minutes or a small number of hours).  The   narrow use of the term refers to generation of an SMTP temporary   failure reply code for traffic from such sources.  There are diverse   implementations of this basic concept and predictably, therefore,   some blurred terminology.   Absent a perfect abuse-detection mechanism that incurs no cost, the   current requirement is for an array of techniques to be used by each   filtering system.  They range in cost, effectiveness, and types of   abuse techniques they target.   Greylisting happens to be a technique that is cheap and early (in   terms of its application in the SMTP sequence) and surprisingly   remains useful.  Some spamware does indeed route around this   technique, but much does not.   The firehose of spam over the Internet represents a wide range of   sophistication.  Greylisting is useful for removing a large amount of   simplistic-but-significant traffic.   This memo documents common greylisting techniques and discusses their   benefits and costs.  It also defines terminology to enable clear   distinction and discussion of these techniques.   There is some confusion in the industry that conflates greylisting   with an SMTP temporary failure for any reason.  The purpose of this   memo is also to dispel such confusion.1.1.  Background   For many years, large amounts of spam have been sent through purpose-   built software, or "spamware", that supports only a constrained   version of SMTP.  In particular, such software does not perform   retransmission attempts after receiving an SMTP temporary failure.   That is, if the spamware cannot deliver a message, it just goes on to   the next address in its list since, in spamming, volume counts for   far more than reliability.  Greylisting exploits this by rejecting   mail from unfamiliar sources with a "transient (soft) fail" (4xx)   [SMTP] error code.  Another application of greylisting is to delayKucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                    [Page 3]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   mail from newly seen IP addresses on the theory that, if it's a spam   source, then by the time it retries, it will appear in a list of   sources to be filtered, and the mail will not be accepted.   Early references for greylisting descriptions and implementations can   be found at [SAUCE] and [PUREMAGIC].1.2.  Definitions1.2.1.  Keywords   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this   document are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS].1.2.2.  Email Architecture Terminology   Readers need to be familiar with the material and terminology   discussed in [MAIL], [EMAIL-ARCH], and [SMTP].2.  Types of Greylisting   Greylisting is primarily performed at some phase during an SMTP   session.  A set of attributes about the client-side SMTP server are   used for assessing whether to perform greylisting.  At its simplest,   the attribute is the IP address of the client, and the assessment is   whether it has previously connected recently.  More elaborate   attribute combinations and more sophisticated assessments can be   performed.  The following discussion covers the most common   combinations and relies on knowledge of [SMTP], its commands, and the   distinction between envelope and content.2.1.  Connection-Level Greylisting   Connection-level greylisting decides whether to accept the TCP   connection from a "new" [SMTP] client.  At this point in the   communication between the client and the server, the only information   known to the receiving server is the incoming IP address.  This, of   course, is often (but not always) translatable into a host name.   The typical application of greylisting here is to keep a record of   SMTP client IP addresses and/or host names (collectively, "sources")   that have been seen.  Such a database acts as a cache of known   senders and might or might not expire records after some period.  If   the source is not in the database, or the record of the source has   not reached some required minimum age (such as 30 minutes since the   initial connection attempt), the server does one of the following,   inviting a later retry:Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                    [Page 4]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   o  returns a 421 SMTP reply and closes the connection, or   o  returns a different 4yz SMTP reply to all further commands in this      SMTP session.   A useful variant of the basic known/unknown policy is to limit   greylisting to those addresses that are on some list of IP addresses   known to be affiliated with bad actors.  Whereas the simpler policy   affects all new connections, including those from good actors, the   constrained policy applies greylisting actions only to sites that   already have a negative reputation.2.2.  SMTP HELO/EHLO Greylisting   HELO/EHLO greylisting refers to the first command verb in an SMTP   session.  It includes a single, required parameter that is supposed   to contain the client's fully qualified host name or its literal IP   address.   Greylisting implemented at this phase retains a record of sources   coupled with HELO/EHLO parameters.  It returns 4yz SMTP replies to   all commands until the end of the SMTP session if that tuple has not   previously been recorded or if the record exists but has not reached   some configured minimum age.2.3.  SMTP MAIL Greylisting   MAIL command greylisting refers to the command verb in an SMTP   session that initiates a new transaction.  It includes at least one   required parameter that indicates the return email address   (RFC5321.MailFrom) of the message being relayed from the client to   the server.   Greylisting implemented at this phase retains a record of sources   coupled with return email addresses.  It returns 4yz SMTP replies to   all commands for the remainder of the SMTP session if that tuple has   not previously been recorded or if the record exists but has not met   some configured minimum age.2.4.  SMTP RCPT Greylisting   RCPT greylisting refers to the command verb in an SMTP session that   specifies intended recipients of an email transaction.  It includes   at least one required parameter that indicates the email address of   an intended recipient of the message being relayed from the client to   the server.Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                    [Page 5]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   Greylisting implemented at this phase retains a record of tuples that   combines the provided recipient address with any combination of the   following:   o  the source, as described above;   o  the return email address; and   o  the other recipient addresses of the message (if any).   If the selected tuple is not found in the database, or if the record   is present but has not reached some configured minimum age, the   greylisting Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) [EMAIL-ARCH] returns 4yz SMTP   replies to all commands for the remainder of the SMTP session.   Note that often a match on a tuple involving the first valid RCPT is   sufficient to identify a retry correctly, and further checks can be   omitted.2.5.  SMTP DATA Greylisting   DATA greylisting refers to the command verb in an SMTP session that   transmits the actual message content, as opposed to its envelope   details.   This type of greylisting can be performed at two places in the SMTP   sequence:   1.  on receipt of the DATA command, because at that point the entire       envelope has been received (i.e., all MAIL and RCPT commands have       been issued); or   2.  on completion of the DATA command, i.e., after the "." that       terminates transmission of the message body, since at that point       a digest or other analysis of the message could be performed.   Some implementations do filtering here because there are clients that   don't bother checking SMTP reply codes to commands other than DATA.   Hence, it can be useful to add greylisting capability at that point   in an SMTP session.   Numerous greylisting policies are possible at this point.  All of   them retain a record of tuples that combine the various parts of the   SMTP transaction in some combination, including:   o  the source, as described above;   o  the return email address;Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                    [Page 6]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   o  the recipients of the message, as a set or individually;   o  identifiers in the message header, such as the contents of theRFC5322.From orRFC5322.To fields;   o  other prominent parts of the content, such as theRFC5322.Subject      field;   o  a digest of some or all of the message content, as a test for      uniqueness; and   o  analysis of arbitrary portions of the message body.   (The last four items in the list above are only possible at the end   of DATA, not on receipt of the DATA command.)   If the selected tuple is not found in the database, or if the record   exists but has not reached some configured minimum age, the   greylisting MTA returns 4yz SMTP replies to all commands for the   remainder of the SMTP session.2.6.  Additional Heuristics   Since greylisting seeks to target spam senders, it follows that being   able to identify spamware within the SMTP context beyond the simple   notion of "not seen before" would be desirable.  A more targeted   approach might also include in its selection heuristics such as the   following:   o  If a DNS blacklist [DNSBL] lists an IP address but the implementer      wishes to be cautious with mitigation actions rather than blocking      traffic from the IP address outright, then subject it to      greylisting.   o  If the value found in a PTR record follows common naming patterns      for dynamic IP addresses, then subject it to greylisting.2.7.  Exceptions   Most greylisting systems provide for an exception mechanism, allowing   one to specify IP addresses, IP address Classless Inter-Domain   Routing (CIDR) [CIDR] blocks, host names, or domain names that are   exempt from greylisting checks and thus whose SMTP client sessions   are not subject to such interference.   Likely candidates to be excepted from greylisting include those known   not to retry according to a pattern that will be observed as   legitimate and those that send so rarely that they will age out ofKucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                    [Page 7]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   the database.  In both cases, the excepted source is known not to be   an abusive one by the site implementing greylisting.  Otherwise,   typical non-abusive senders will enter the exception list on the   first proper retry and remain there permanently.   One could also use a [DNSBL] that lists known good hosts as a   greylisting exception set.3.  Benefits and Costs   The most obvious benefit with any of the above techniques is that   spamware generally does not retry and is therefore less likely to   succeed, absent a record of a previous delivery attempts.   The most obvious detriment to implementing greylisting is the   imposition of delay on legitimate mail.  Some popular MTAs do not   retry failed delivery attempts for an hour or more, which can cause   expensive delays when delivery of mail is time critical.  Worse, some   legitimate MTAs do not retry at all.  (Note, however, that non-   retrying clients are not fully SMTP-capable, per Section 2.1 of   [SMTP].  A client does not know, nor is it entitled to know, the   reason for the temporary failure status code being returned;   greylisting could be in effect, or it could be caused by a local   resource issue at the server.  A client therefore needs to be   equipped to retry in order to be considered fully capable.)   The counterargument to this "false positive" problem is that email   has always been a "best-effort" mechanism; thus, this cost is   ultimately low in comparison to the cost of dealing with high volumes   of unwanted mail.  Still, the actual effect of such delays can be   significant, such as altering the tone or flow of a multi-participant   discussion to a mailing list.   When the clients are subjected to any kind of reconfiguration,   especially network renumbering, the cache of information stored about   SMTP client history does not benefit legitimate clients that are   already listed for acceptance.  To the greylisting implementation,   such clients are once again unknown, and they will once again be   subjected to the delay.   Another obvious cost is for the required database.  It has to be   large enough to keep the necessary history and fast enough to avoid   excessive inefficiencies in the server's operations.  The primary   consideration is the maximum age of records in the database.  If   records age out too soon, then hosts that do retry per [SMTP] will be   periodically subjected to greylisting even though they are well-Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                    [Page 8]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   behaved; if records age out after too long a period, then eventually   spamware that launches a new campaign will not be identified as   "unknown" in this manner and will not be required to retry.   Presuming that known friendly senders will be manually configured as   exceptions to the greylisting check, a steady state will eventually   be reached wherein the only mail that is delayed is mail from an IP   address that has never sent mail before.  Experience suggests that   the vast majority of mail comes from places on a developed exception   list, so after a training period, only a small proportion of mail is   actually affected.  The training period could be replaced by   processing a history of email traffic and adding the IP addresses   from which most traffic arrives to the exception list.   Applying greylisting based on actual message content (i.e., post-   DATA) is substantially more expensive than any of the other   alternatives both in terms of the resources required to accept and   temporarily store a complete message body (which can be quite   substantial) and any processing that is done on that content.  As a   consequence, such methods incur more cost during the session and thus   are not typical practice.4.  Unintended Consequences4.1.  Unintended Mail Delivery Failures   There are a few failure modes of greylisting that are worth   considering.  For example, consider an email message intended for   user@example.com.  The example.com domain is served by two receiving   mail servers, one called mail1.example.com and one called   mail2.example.com.  On the first delivery attempt, mail1.example.com   greylists the client, and thus the client places the message in its   outgoing queue for later retry.  Later, when a retry is attempted,   mail2.example.com is selected for the delivery, either because   mail1.example.com is unavailable or because a round-robin [DNS]   evaluation produces that result.  However, the two example.com hosts   do not share greylisting databases, so the second host again denies   the attempt.  Thus, although example.com has sought to improve its   email throughput by having two servers, it has, in fact, amplified   the problem of legitimate mail delay introduced by greylisting.   Similarly, consider a site with multiple outbound MTAs that share a   common queue.  On a first outbound delivery attempt to example.com,   the attempt is greylisted.  On a later retry, a different outbound   MTA is selected, which means example.com sees a different source, and   once again greylisting occurs on the same message.  The same effect   can result from the use of [DHCP], where the IP address of an   outbound MTA changes between attempts.Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                    [Page 9]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   For systems that do DATA-level greylisting, if any part of the   message has changed since the first attempt, the tuple constructed   might be different than the one for the first attempt, and the   delivery is again greylisted.  Some MTAs do reformulate portions of   the message at submission time, and this can produce visible   differences for each attempt.   A host that sends mail to a particular destination infrequently might   not remain "known" in the receiving server's database and will   therefore be greylisted for a high percentage of mail despite   possibly being a legitimate sender.   All of these and other similar cases can cause greylisting to be   applied improperly to legitimate MTAs multiple times, leading to long   delays in delivery or ultimately the return of the message to its   sender.  Other side effects include out-of-order delivery of related   sequenced messages.   Address translation technologies such as [NAT] cause distinct MTAs to   appear to come from a common IP address.  This can cause greylisting   to be applied only to the first connection attempt from the shared IP   address, meaning future MTAs connecting for the first time will be   exempted from the protection greylisting provides.4.2.  Unintended SMTP Client Failures   Atypical SMTP client behaviors also need to be considered when   deploying greylisting.   Some clients do not retry messages for very long periods.  Popular   open source MTAs implement increasing backoff times when messages   receive temporary failure messages and/or degrade queue priority for   very large messages.  This means greylisting introduces even more   delay for MTAs implementing such schemes, and the delay can become   large enough to become a nuisance to users.   Some clients do not retry messages at all, in violation of [SMTP].   This means greylisting will cause outright delivery failure right   away for sources, envelopes, or messages that it has not seen before,   regardless of the client attempting the delivery, essentially   treating legitimate mail and spam the same.   If a greylisting scheme requires a database record to have reached a   certain age rather than merely testing for the presence of the record   in the database, and the client has a retry schedule that is too   aggressive, the client could be subjected to rate limiting by the MTA   independent of the restrictions imposed by greylisting.Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                   [Page 10]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   Some SMTP implementations make the error of treating all error codes   as fatal, contrary to [SMTP]; that is, a 4yz response is treated as   if it were a 5yz response, and the message is returned to the sender   as undeliverable.  This can result in such things as inadvertent   removal from mailing lists in response to the perceived rejections.   Some clients encode message-specific details in the address parameter   to the [SMTP] MAIL command.  If doing so causes the parameter to   change between retry attempts, a greylisting implementation could see   it as a new delivery rather than a retry and disallow the delivery.   In such cases, the mail will never be delivered and will be returned   to the sender after the retry timeout expires.   A client subjected to greylisting might move to the next host found   in the ordered [DNS] MX record set for the destination domain and re-   attempt delivery.  This has several considerations of its own:   o  Traffic to those alternate servers increases merely as a result of      greylisting.   o  Alternate (MX) servers SHOULD share the same greylisting database.      When they do not -- as is often true when the servers occupy      different Administrative Management Domains (ADMDs) -- SMTP      clients can see variable treatment if they try to send to      different MX hosts.   o  When alternate MX servers relay mail back to the "primary" MX      server, the latter SHOULD be configured to permit the other      servers to relay mail without being subjected to greylisting.   There are some applications that connect to an SMTP server and   simulate a transaction up to the point of sending the RCPT command in   an attempt to confirm that an address is valid.  Some of these are   legitimate applications (e.g., mailing list servers), and others are   automated programs that attempt to ascertain valid addresses to which   to send spam (a "directory harvesting" attack).  Greylisting can   interfere with both instances, with harmful effects on the former.4.3.  Address Space Saturation   Greylisting is obviously not a foolproof solution to avoiding abusive   traffic.  Bad actors that send mail with just enough frequency to   avoid having their records expire will never be caught by this   mechanism after the first instance.Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                   [Page 11]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   Where this is a concern, combining greylisting with some form of   reputation service that estimates the likely behavior for IP   addresses that are not intercepted by the greylisting function would   be a good choice.5.  Recommendations   The following practices are RECOMMENDED based on collected   experience:   1.  Implement greylisting based on a tuple consisting of (IP address,RFC5321.MailFrom, and the firstRFC5321.RcptTo).  It is       sufficient to use only the firstRFC5321.RcptTo as legitimate       MTAs appear not to reorder recipients between retries.  IncludingRFC5321.MailFrom improves accuracy where the IP address is being       matched in clusters (e.g., CIDR blocks) rather than precisely       (see below).  After a successful retry, allow all further [SMTP]       traffic from the IP address in that tuple regardless of envelope       information.   2.  Include a configurable range of time within which a retry from a       greylisted host is considered and outside of which it is       otherwise ignored.  The range needs to cover typical retry times       of common MTA configurations, thus anticipating that a fully       capable MTA will retry sometime after the beginning of the range       and before the end of it.  The default range SHOULD be from one       minute to 24 hours.  Retries within the range are permitted and       satisfy the greylisting test, and the client is thus no longer       likely to be a sender of spam.  Retries after the end of the       range SHOULD be considered to be a new message for the purposes       of greylisting evaluation (i.e., reset the "first seen" timestamp       for that IP address).  Some sites use a higher time value for the       low end of the time range to match common legitimate MTA retry       timeouts, but additional benefit from doing so appears unlikely.   3.  Include a timeout for database entries, after which records for       IP addresses that have generated no recent traffic are deleted.       This step is intended to re-enable greylisting for an IP address       in the event that it has changed "owners" and will subject the       client to another round of greylisting.  The default SHOULD be at       least one week.   4.  For an Administrative Management Domain (ADMD), all inbound       border MTAs listed in the [DNS] SHOULD share a common greylisting       database and common greylisting policies.  This handles sequences       in which a client's retry goes to a different server after the       first 4yz reply, and it lets all servers share the list of hosts       that did retry successfully.Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                   [Page 12]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   5.  To accommodate those senders that have clusters of outgoing mail       servers, greylisting servers MAY track CIDR blocks of a size of       its own choosing, such as /24, rather than the full IPv4 address.       (Note, however, that this heuristic will not work for clusters       having machines on different networks.)  A similar grouping       capability MAY be established based on the domain name of the       mail server if one can be determined.   6.  Include a manual override capability for adding specific IP       addresses or network blocks that always bypass checks.  There are       legitimate senders that simply don't respond well to greylisting       for a variety of reasons, most of which do not conflict with       [SMTP].  There are also some highly visible online entities such       as email service providers that will be certain to retry; thus,       those that are known SHOULD be allowed to bypass the filter.   7.  Greylisting SHOULD NOT be applied by an ADMD's submission service       (see [SUBMISSION]) for authenticated client hosts.  It also       SHOULD not be applied against any authenticated ADMD session.       Authentication can include whatever mechanisms are deemed       appropriate for the ADMD, such as known internal IP addresses,       protocol-level client authentication, or the like.   There is no specific recommendation as to the specific choice of 4yz   code to be returned as a result of a greylisting delay.  Per [SMTP],   however, the only two reasonable choices are 421 if the   implementation wishes to terminate the connection immediately and 450   otherwise.  It is possible that some clients treat different 4yz   codes differently, but no data is available on whether using 421   versus some other 4yz code is particularly advantageous.   There is also no specific recommendation as to the choice of text to   include in the SMTP reply, if any.  Some implementers argue that   indicating that greylisting is in effect can give spamware a hint as   to when to try again for successful delivery, while others suspect   that it won't matter to spamware and thus the more likely audience is   legitimate senders seeking to understand why their mail is being   delayed.6.  Measuring Effectiveness   A few techniques are common when measuring the effectiveness of   greylisting in a particular installation:   o  Arrange to log the spam versus legitimate determinations of      messages and what the greylisting decision would have been if      enabled; then determine whether there is a correlation (and, of      course, whether too much legitimate email would also be affected).Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                   [Page 13]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   o  Continuing from the previous point, query the set of IP addresses      subjected to greylisting in any popular [DNSBL] to see if there is      a strong correlation.7.  IPv6 Applicability   The descriptions and recommendations presented in this memo are based   on many years of experience with greylisting in the IPv4 Internet   environment, so they clearly pertain to IPv4 deployments only.   The greater size of an IPv6 address seems likely to permit   differences in behaviors by bad actors, and this could well mean   needing to alter the details for applying greylisting; it might even   negate any benefits in using greylisting at all.  At a minimum, it is   likely to call for different specific choices for any greylisting   algorithm variables.   In addition, an obvious consideration is that the size of the   database required to store records of all of the IP addresses seen   will likely be substantially larger in the IPv6 environment.8.  Security Considerations   This section discusses potential security issues related to   greylisting.8.1.  Trade-Offs   The discussion above highlights the fact that, although greylisting   provides some obvious and valuable defenses, it can introduce   unintentional and detrimental consequences for delivery of legitimate   mail.  Where timely delivery of email is essential, especially for   financial, transactional, or security-related applications, the   possible consequences of such systems need to be carefully   considered.   Specific sources can be exempted from greylisting, but, of course,   that means they have elevated privilege in terms of access to the   mailboxes on the greylisting system, and malefactors can seek to   exploit this.8.2.  Database   The database that has to be maintained as part of any greylisting   system will grow as the diversity of its SMTP clients' hosts grows   and, of course, is larger in general depending on the nature of the   tuple stored about each delivery attempt.  Even with a record aging   policy in place, such a database could grow large enough to interfereKucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                   [Page 14]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   with the system hosting it, or at least to a point at which   greylisting service is degraded.  Moreover, an attacker knowing which   greylisting scheme is in use could rotate parameters of SMTP clients   under its control, in an attempt to inflate the database to the point   of denial-of-service.   Implementers could consider configuring an appropriate failure policy   so that something locally acceptable happens when the database is   attacked or otherwise unavailable.   In practice, this has not appeared as a serious concern, because any   reasonable aging policy successfully moderates database growth.  It   is nevertheless identified here as a consideration as there may be   implementations in some environments where this is indeed an issue.9.  References9.1.  Normative References   [EMAIL-ARCH]  Crocker, D., "Internet Mail Architecture",RFC 5598,                 July 2009.   [KEYWORDS]    Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate                 Requirement Levels",BCP 14,RFC 2119, March 1997.   [SMTP]        Klensin, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol",RFC 5321,                 October 2008.   [SUBMISSION]  Gellens, R. and J. Klensin, "Message Submission for                 Mail", STD 72,RFC 6409, November 2011.9.2.  Informative References   [CIDR]        Fuller, V. and T. Li, "Classless Inter-domain Routing                 (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation                 Plan",BCP 122,RFC 4632, August 2006.   [DHCP]        Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol",RFC 2131, March 1997.   [DNS]         Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and                 specification", STD 13,RFC 1035, November 1987.   [DNSBL]       Levine, J., "DNS Blacklists and Whitelists",RFC 5782,                 February 2010.   [MAIL]        Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format",RFC 5322,                 October 2008.Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                   [Page 15]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012   [NAT]         Srisuresh, P. and K. Egevang, "Traditional IP Network                 Address Translator (Traditional NAT)",RFC 3022,                 January 2001.   [PUREMAGIC]   Harris, E., "The Next Step in the Spam Control War:                 Greylisting", August 2003,                 <http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html>.   [SAUCE]       Jackson, I., "GNU SAUCE", 2001,                 <http://www.gnu.org/software/sauce>.Kucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                   [Page 16]

RFC 6647                       Greylisting                     June 2012Appendix A.  Acknowledgments   The authors wish to acknowledge Mike Adkins, Steve Atkins, Mihai   Costea, Derek Diget, Peter J. Holzer, John Levine, Chris Lewis, Jose-   Marcio Martins da Cruz, John Klensin, S. Moonesamy, Suresh   Ramasubramanian, Mark Risher, Jordan Rosenwald, Gregory Shapiro, Joe   Sniderman, Roland Turner, and Michael Wise for their contributions to   this memo.  The various participants of the MAAWG Open Sessions about   greylisting were also valued contributors.Authors' Addresses   Murray S. Kucherawy   Cloudmark   128 King St., 2nd Floor   San Francisco, CA  94107   US   Phone: +1 415 946 3800   EMail: superuser@gmail.com   Dave Crocker   Brandenburg InternetWorking   675 Spruce Dr.   Sunnyvale, CA  94086   USA   Phone: +1.408.246.8253   EMail: dcrocker@bbiw.net   URI:http://bbiw.netKucherawy & Crocker          Standards Track                   [Page 17]

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