@misc{rfc6647, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 6647, howpublished = {RFC 6647}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC6647}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6647}, author = {Murray Kucherawy and Dave Crocker}, title = {{Email Greylisting: An Applicability Statement for SMTP}}, pagetotal = 17, year = 2012, month = jun, abstract = {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. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }