Hello,

I have been comtemplating writing a pre-DATA hook into courier to allow for more
efficient greylisting. I guess it would actually hook into the RCPT TO: handler.
The biggest problem with the current method (in my opinion) is that it runs so
late in the process, after having already recieved the message. It also uses
hashes of the entire message, which seems to me to be a level of paranoia that
will cause more problems than solve.

If each successful message stores remote address, sender email, and recipient
email, a "2 out of 3" test seems pretty reasonable to me.

Has anyone seen a situation where the MAIL FROM: changes on a retry? I'm
thinking of things like mailing lists that automagically handle bounces, things
like that.

I'm interested in any comments or criticism.

Josh

Sander Holthaus wrote:
> Dino Ciuffetti wrote:
> 
>>>>>http://www.freenux.org/~mm/wordpress/?p=6
>>>>>http://swik.net/courier-pythonfilter
>>>
>>>I'm testing greylist.py pythonfilter module for courier-mta. I
>>>wrote a little consideration about it. You'll find at
>>>http://www.freenux.org/~mm/wordpress/?p=6
>>>
>>>Ciao, Dino.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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> I'm interested in seeing the changes you made. As I recall, I had
> several reasons not to implement greylisting/comeback-again as it was
> and lacked the time (and Python knowledge) to hack it myself.
> I would still like to see Greylisting in the default codebase of
> Courier, as it is a very potent anti-spam/phising/virus sollution.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Sander Holthaus

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