Thanks to all the hard-workers fighting against the spam problem. I just had to delete the .dbm database because it seemed to be stuck. I did not see it growing over about a two hour time frame, even though everything else in the logs looked normal except for the following.
There was one (that I know of) ip address that just kept getting an "initial DENYSOFT", while I could see that others were being moved grey->white during the same timeframe. This recreation of the database solved the problem for this ip address, but I am wondering how many other ones might be missed. I had the blacklist time set down to 10 minutes, and the other two were at default. The plugin was downloaded and installed early last week, and was installed onto a fairly busy mail server late last week. It seemed to be doing a great job, until I found this problem. It also seems that there are a few legitimate mail servers out there that do not queue and retry on the DENYSOFT. A couple of instances of customers having immediate denials returned to them, and the only retry is a manual one that they attempted, usually too quick for the black_timeout. Thanks in advance for any help or discussion on this. Sam
