Hi,

we had the same problem in the past - I wrote patch which implements whitelist 
scoping:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15790287 

Tha patch is for policyd 1.73 and was not updated since then, but I think it 
should be easy to port it to actual policyd version.


Martin




> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Clearcable Networks - Mike D.
> Sent: 22. března 2007 0:17
> To: policyd-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [policyd-users] whitlist for greylisting but not throttle
> 
> Good Afternoon,
> 
> We recently implemented policyd on our MX servers, which also 
> handle outbound SMTP for clients.  For this, i whitelisted 
> our IP blocks for greylisting, but recently discovered that 
> this also exempted the hosts from the THROTTLE feature.  Now, 
> when a user is infected with a virus/spambot, the servers 
> seem to allow the mail through (thousands!) and ignore the 
> throttle function of policyd. However, if i remove the 
> whitelisting, then every user gets a "greylisting" error 
> every time they try to send mail through the server
> 
> If someone can point me in the right direction of being able 
> to whitelist our IP blocks/hostnames for greylisting in 
> policyd but not for throttling, that would be great.  I was 
> thinking of trying to run another instance of policyd using a 
> different port for JUST throttling, but thought there must be 
> better way
> 
> Any help would be appreciated
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Mike
> 
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