On Wed, Nov 29, 2006, George Ascione wrote: >>> I also think it is a significant mistake to only retain the >>> information for 24 hours. If a server is proven to retry, why would >>> you continue to greylist? At that point, the *only* thing you are >>> accomplishing is delaying email. It is better to leave the >>> information in there for 30 to 60 days, in my opinion, if >> you know the >>> server will retry properly.
>> Keeping white states for 30+ days has one certain merit - monthly >> mailing list digests won't be throttled into oblivion. >> My approach is keeping white entries for 36 days and temporarily >> whitelisting hosts that push 5 messages into the white state. > Are you using greylistd? If so how do you temporarily whitelist hosts that > push 5 messages into the white state? I'm using my own greylisting daemon written in Perl. I parse its logs and refresh the whitelist database via cron. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
