On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Calomel wrote:
Dan,
The "blocked while grey listed" number of 8 is dependent on the amount of
retries the remote mail server attempted while grey listed. Comcast servers
for example will try once per minute to deliver their mail. For example, if
you grey listed comcast for 25 minutes the blocked number would be around
24-26.
Aha! This explains the spamdb entry I posted, which also goes to show
that no matter how many times I read something in the documentation,
sometimes I just don't get it. I was under the mistaken impression that
spamd simply counted retries and changed the GREY entries to WHITE once
the block count reached a certain magic number. The fact that I could not
find this magic number in the documentation should have tipped me off.
I am using the spamd default timeouts-- on startup I only specify to use
greylisting, that the hostname match our real MX, and to use 451's instead
of 450's.
So that particular problem was a red herring. I will upgrade my system to
4.2 before I complain about spamd any more.
Thanks!
Dan
