[Greylist-users] Is it Possible to NOT use client_ip?

[Rob Morin]

What do i do to Postgrey to allow only sender and recipient and no IP?

Or do i use x-grey with my postfix, i am confused a bit?
Thanks

Rob Morin
Dido Internet Inc.
Montreal,Canada
http://www.dido.ca
514-990-4444



Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Rob Morin once stated:
>   
>> My first post to this list, please be gentle...    :)
>>
>> Is it possible to NOT consider the client_ip when using postgrey?
>>
>> My problem is we just switched to load balancing and the incoming emails 
>> always seem like they come from the same IP address....
>>
>> Would postgrey still be useful if it checked only the to and from ?
>>     
>
>   Using my own greylist implementation [1], I ran two tests over 565,012
> tuples [2].  The first one used the full [IP,sender,recipient] tuple using a
> 1s embargo timeout (otherwise, using realistic values and timings such a
> test would take a few days):
>
> 	Start: Thu Nov 29 17:08:21 2007 
> 	End: Thu Nov 29 17:10:59 2007 
> 	Running time: 2m 38s
> 	
> 	Requests:                   565012
> 	
> 	...
> 	
> 	Tuples:                     499846
> 	Graylisted:                 499846
> 	Graylisted-Expired:              0
> 	Whitelisted:                  6945
> 	Whitelisted-Expired:             0
>
>   Rerunning to ignore the IP address, but otherwise unchanged from the
> previous run:
>
> 	Start: Thu Nov 29 17:16:21 2007 
> 	End: Thu Nov 29 17:19:23 2007 
> 	Running time: 3m 2s
> 	
> 	Requests:                   565012
> 	
> 	...
> 	
> 	Tuples:                     499846
> 	Graylisted:                 499846
> 	Graylisted-Expired:              0
> 	Whitelisted:                  6957
> 	Whitelisted-Expired:             0
>
>   A few more, so it appears that you might be able to skip the IP address.
>
>   -spc (Hope this helps some)
>
> [1]	http://www.x-grey.com/
>
> [2]	Actual tuples seen on production servers while developing X-Grey.
>
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