[Greylist-users] Greylisting status

[Alan Batie]

Greylisting has been a godsend here; before greylisting, I personally
had about 1000+/- spams/day filtered by spamassassin, with about 15
leaking.  After installing the greylisting milter, that's dropped to
around 100, with only 2-3 leaking through.  Granted, some of my email
addresses are over 10 years old, so I'm a worst case, but with around
500 users on the system, spam processing has been a major load.

On the down side, I noticed today that I'm seeing delays on mail injected
locally, even though I have the whitelist configured.  This seems to be
preventing the occasional mail from being delivered.  I went to run the
db_maintenance.pl script, and got an error about no more connections
available, even though I could connect with the mysql client and run
queries ok.  I ended up shutting down sendmail (to keep spam from coming
in in the meantime), mysql and relaydelay, running the db_maintenance.pl
script, then restarting things.  I think something's not freeing up
threads in mysql (admittedly 4.1.0 alpha), though why it's dependent on
database size instead of connections, I've no idea...

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
-Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)
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