David,

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 17:28 +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
>> I think SQL for graylist is totally overkill.
> 
> It's only sqlite -- it doesn't require a separate database server; it's
> purely within Exim. 

It doesn't make it faster and doesn't excuse SQL parser, transactions 
and bunch of other staff not needed in this case.

> You've got to have _some_ kind of database, and this
> is more efficient than just doing it with text files (as my original
> implementation did.

sqlite is nice product (good step back to 1994) but people tend to 
consider it as a cure-all-diseases magic pile. We need a record manager 
here but not a database - i.e. Berkeley DB, not sqlite.

>> Check this implementation:
>> http://www.beastsoft.net/cgi-bin/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/greyd/
> 
> Ew, Mercurial and C++... not the best first impression.
> 
> A separate dæmon written in C++ with a 'thread pool' implementation and
> weird OS 'abstraction' layers to handle signals... that's not overkill?

It's really fast and scalable (actually what it was written for - one of 
mid size ISP asked me for help). Also it couldn't cause email loss - 
i.e. if something goes wrong e-mail just passed in.

> You also don't seem to be passing it anything other than $sender_address
> and $sender_host_address -- and you're even assuming the latter is
> Legacy IP, afaict.

I'm checking sender host address and sender from address, e.g:
209.85.218.168:*[email protected]

This combination is sufficient enough but not perfect. What else you 
suggest to check?


-- 
Dmitry Samersoff
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