Marco,
I apologise if I came across as rude, I just felt a massive debate had grown
from a simple quetion if a tool existed to mentioning some problem that I
didn't know what was.
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 03:45:47PM +0000, Marco van Beek wrote:
Those two do not contradict each other.
No, but to me saying something doesn't know if something is waiting, then that
it stores the connection details with a timestamp, does. We will just have to
differ in that opinion.
PostGrey simply stores an entry with a timestamp. It doesn't record that
anything is waiting, just when the last SMTP connection was made. If
someone sends an email to the same person from the same server every few
days they are never greylisted, and for the same reason a second email
from the same person on the same server sent 5:01 minutes later will
sail through PostGrey checks, whereas the queued email sometimes doesn't
arrive for hours.
I know.
I think you are about to waste a lot of time and effort trying to read a
database that won't tell you what you want to know, but it's not my time
and not my problem.
I don't really think I said what it was I wanted. I just find my-self
frequently being asked by my wife why a password reset mail (as an example),
hasn't arrived, and rather than constantly trawling through logs for her, I
could have a URL run a script that output the connections not yet white listed
for her to see. That would leave me out of the loop.
You may notice that nobody else has written back to say it works
differently to what John and I have said, and we have been looking after
email servers with PostGrey for over a decade,
So have I, and I have never doubted how postgrey works.
and I am the only person
to tell you about the existing reporting tool, which isn't perfect but
would give you somewhere to start to better understand the problem.
And I still don't know what the problem I have mentioned is. All I am saying is that that tool is an after-the-fact and statistics tool.
I suggest you read the man page for postgreyreport:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/postgreyreport.1.html
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And then feel free to wind your neck in a bit and apologise. I
appreciate English might not be your first language, but you have been
very rude / arrogant towards me. I told you there was a tool, and by
your answers, it looks like you didn't even bother to read up about it.
I read the man page for that tool before I asked here.
I will see if I can write a tool for what I need.
Thanks
Henrik Morsing
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