[Greylist-users] How do you know when you are ready?

[Alan Batie]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:06:07PM -0500, Morris Maynard wrote:
> I "tested" it by installing it on my least challenging network (least mail
> traffic) adn as it turns out I got the local whitelisting wrong and pissed
> off the manager. But once all was running smoothly I went ahead and
> installed it on two other networks. On those, the main problem has been
> anxiety from users who know about the change, that they were not receiving
> expected mail because of it. So far that has not been the case.

It does occasionally affect legit mail; I'm dealing with one that is
apparently tickling the EXIM problem mentioned on the website.  But I
also just installed the qgreylist version (http://www.jonatkins.com/qgreylist/)
on a site running qmail, and "concurrency" dropped from 50-60 processes
delivering mail to keep up to 18.  It's well worth the occasional glitch.

One thing different is that qgreylist only uses the ip address, and uses
the filesystem as the database: essentially "touch ip-address" and then
check the file timestamp.  I modified it to make a path out of the ip
address to keep the directory from getting too large, but it's way
simpler and I don't think you're going to get spam and legit mail from
the same ip address.  certainly not for very long.

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